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...careers that are now open to young men and women. There is no organization in the University responsible for collecting this material, tabulating it, keeping it up-to-date, and maintaining the outside contact necessary for genuine information concerning various opportunities. What is lone is done in a haphazard manner. If a professor is generous with his time and thought, he can help scores of students every year; but if he is too preoccupied with his own academic duties, he may neglect this phase of his responsibilities altogether...
...loyalty which they are expected to manifest toward the University; it is also a matter of serving the public by placing in positions that call for responsible leadership college graduates who are competent to the task. This is not an age for rule of thumb methods and haphazard guessing about our life work. It is an age of scientific examination into facts and conditions and the deliberate, foresighted preparation of men and women for handling specific problems. The task of vocational guidance is at our door. Perhaps no greater work ever confronted a university than that of frankly and consciously...
...Forty-five percent. of the class of 1914 chose Group III. This was surprising. But the reason for the choice is evident. The breadth of the field is such that six different courses in Group III, ranging possibly from sociology to statistics and agriculture; are extremely easy to find. Haphazard election of courses was the rule. No concentration whatever resulted. In no other field was it possible, while fulfilling requirements, to evade the purpose of the group system so widely...
...learning and power which four years of reading, attending lectures, and studying lead one to expect. Some of the shortcomings may be blamed, as the Alumni Bulletin has pointed out, to the failure of preparatory schools to teach methods of study; but some may also be charged to the haphazard nature of most teaching in the University...
...happen that a man passes, without any intervening study, the examination which floored him a few months before? And as for the penalty of probation, it is evident that no sentiment to make it the disgrace it should be can be aroused as long as it follows upon so haphazard a test...