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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the return by the early part of March of 86 per cent of the Questionnaires sent out to the Senior Class by the Harvard Alumni Placement Service, statistics about the future activities of the members of this year's graduating group have been compiled by D. T. Moyer '27, assistant director of the service...
...class of '32, who expect to graduate this spring, and 62 out-of-course students. Of these 651 were returned properly filled out, and it is upon the basis of these that the figures have been made up. In answer to the first question on the blank, 56.8 per cent of the students asserted that they had made a definite choice of occupation after college, while the remaining were undecided at the middle of their last year. Over 50 per cent of these had made their choice since they came to college, while 31 per cent had selected...
...number of these who will go into business is the lowest this year in the history of the bureau. In 1921 there were approximately 50 per cent of the graduating students going into business, but since then its popularity has steadily declined until this year only 30.27 percent chose a business career. Coming to second place from third of last year medicine increased from 13 to 16.6 percent of the number of students listed Dropping from 19 to 15 per cent law slipped into third place this year, followed by education with 10 per cent. The fields of engineering, research...
...more used, there are more and more worn-out and lost books to be replaced. The number of periodicals and other serials that must be taken is constantly growing, and eats up each year a very substantial part of the annual income,--estimated at nearly twenty-five per cent. A new periodical is like a new baby in a family, it is an additional and continuing expense; but unlike the baby, it never grows up and becomes self-supporting. And the birth rate of periodicals is greatly in excess of the death rate. Binding and rebinding is another steadily increasing...
Holders of banknotes issued by any of the 160-odd National Banks which failed last year have not lost, cannot lose a cent. Under U. S. banking law no banknote can be issued until its full value is covered by bonds which bear the circulation privilege deposited with the Treasury's Comptroller of the Currency. When banknotes issued by defunct U. S. banks come in, the Comptroller withdraws them from circulation, giving in exchange full value secured by the bonds in his possession...