Word: huntingtonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concept of a permanent office was little more than a whimsical procrastination. In 1945, however, the Office of Student Placement was finally organized with John W. Telle as Director. Since then, the Office has grown in facilities, but not in personnel as the present staff of Crooks, David P. Huntington, and four secretaries is approximately the same staff that held the office together 11 years...
...office's chief problems is that not enough people know what, where, or how it operates. Some students think of Student Placement as a place to pick up a job as a dishwasher at Leverett rather than a sober conference with Crooks or Huntington about a future vocation. For this and other reasons, the Office originated the Career Conferences in 1948 which have gone a long way to bring Student Placement before the eyes of the student...
Taking office time as a basis of judgment, Student Placement's No. 1 job is that of counselling future job-holders. This is simply a process whereby Huntington and Crooks talk with any student who wishes to come into their office and discuss their future plans. These talks usually begin with a discussion of the student's desires, an evaluation of his talents, his immediate future (military service and graduate school), and finally, definite suggestions...
...Yardling trackmen overwhelmed Huntington School, 52 to 7, yesterday at Briggs Cage...
...England and France. Almost overnight back came a flood of reminiscences about Van Doren from poets and philosophers, from former teachers and old classmates, even from his landlady while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they...