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Alumni placements, supervised by James F. Dwinell '02, included 69 members of the Class of '37, and totalled 163, a gain of 18 over 1935-36. Average salary for graduate students leaped from $1470 to $1752, with smaller gains for Seniors and other alumni. Seniors averaged $1190 a year, making the cash value of a graduate degree according to these figures...
...Student Employment Office, under the direction of Russell T. Sharpe '28, 1148 applicants were placed during the past year, a 6.5 per cent gain over 1935-36. Earnings of those placed through the office dropped slightly to just under $200,000, but Plimpton attributed the decline to changes in bookkeeping methods, since total undergraduate earnings reached $278,-088.98 to top the corresponding figure the previous year...
...looks as if Business would gain a first down this week, for in the final speech of the Congress of American Industry, Colby Chester states the case of industry more simply, and moderately, than it has been stated to date. Frankly and significantly recognizing the political and economic power of Labor, he asks for an immediate three-way conference-Business, Government and Labor...
...Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with Dow-Jones industrial averages reaching 128. Moody's commodity price index was up from 144.6 on November 24 to 149.2 last week with industry buying heavily for the first time in months. And Bernard E. (''Sell 'em Ben") Smith, most famed of Wall Street bears...
...increasing 100% each year, the National Ski Association last week took steps. The association, a member of the Federation Internationale de Ski, believes that U. S. skiing has reached the point where only teachers of proven qualifications should give skiing instruction, as is the custom in Europe. To gain this approval, plus a handsome diploma, potential U. S. Ski-meisters journeyed to Bolton, Vt. to be inspected by Otto Eugen Schniebs, head of the newly formed American Ski School...