Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each year a group of Executives from the New York office of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, representing the New York activities, the New England activities, and the Western Electric Company, visit the arger colleges, including Harvard, and spend the greater part of a week interviewing seniors who may want to go into their business. Every year a number of men do go in; the number of college men is increasing annually, and the opportunities for a definite career are becoming even more and more marked...
...Telephone Company activities are generally divided into three distinct divisions. It may be recalled that in the original article on the Employment Graph, mention was made of the different divisions in a manufacturing business. The Telephone Company shows similar definite divisions, which are known as Plant, Commercial, and Traffic...
However, it is into the two departments. Commercial and Traffic that many graduates of Liberal Arts colleges go, and in which they may find for themselves a definite career. This career would have certain differences from a great many other businesses. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Associated Companies is probably the largest combined organization, and employs the largest number of people of any group in the United States. In many ways it is analogous to the Government. The ultimate salaries, while good, are probably somewhat less than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however...
...addition to the plant, traffic, and commercial departments, there are in the operating companies certain staff departments, such as statistical, purchasing, and accounting, into which men may go, but their particular abilities and specialized training in the company is the important factor...
...learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...