Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First discussion of the greatest problem to be faced by the Senior Class, the employment problem, was started this morning when all members of the graduating class received letters from James F. Dwinell '02, Director of the Placement Office, enclosing a pamphlet on occupational information...
...since the Coolidge era have June graduates found jobs as plentiful as have this year's. Reported Chicago's Graduate Placement Bureau, 92% placed, average monthly salary $115. Yale: 45% placed, salary $120. Princeton, "anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...
From 1902 until his death Henderson wrote on music for the Sun. He always insisted that he was simply "a reporter with a specialty-music." Singers thought enough of his specialty to ask him about their placement, production, control...
...effort to improve the contacts between the New England colleges and the New England industries, twenty-seven men met recently at a conference in Boston. Representatives of fifteen colleges included Donald B. Moyer '27 of the University Alumni Placement Office, who expects that 38 per cent of the Class of 1937 will take jobs after graduating, while 50 per cent go into Graduate studies...
...connection with the findings of the conference was the suggestion recently launched by the Alumni Placement Service that manufacturers should give summer "try-outs" to men who plan to return for more study in the fall. The Service says that "such tryout experiences give a young man a does of realism and help him better make his final selection of a job" as well as giving the company time for "observation of a beginner's work before he is put on the permanent payroll