Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That alumni placement is primarily for the consideration of graduates and Seniors is a natural supposition. The very word "alumni" is misleading, and the annual invitation to seniors to register with the Alumni Placement Office is supporting evidence...
...other hand, the Placement Office bulletin, published by the University, states, "Students may register at any time during their college course, but are urged to do so not later than their third year of residence and earlier if they will...
...Alumni Placement, then, although it is consummated in the Senior year, has its roots early in college. The Placement Office, therefore, welcomes particularly all underclassmen who wish to discuss any problem concerning choice of a career or search for a job. In fact only with early registrants can the Office render its best service...
...then, should alumni placement concern Juniors, Sophomores, even Freshmen? Briefly the answer is, "in order to get ready, to make plans." Because the prospective doctor of medicine must as an underclassman take hood of his profession's requirements, so any undergraduate must prepare himself for whatever other career he decides upon...
...attributes much of the illness treated by his department. Every attempt has been made to relieve the undergraduate from financial worry, although many of these services are not fully appreciated. In addition to an increasing effort to provide scholarships for deserving students, excellent work has been done by the Placement Bureau and the Student Employment Office in finding jobs for men during and after college, and this service has been supplemented by loans from Lehman Hall when circumstances warranted...