Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many undergraduates, particularly seniors, are beginning to wonder if the tide in their affairs is not already lapping at their feet. As the sands of college life disappear they will see one beacon by which to set their course--the Alumni Placement Office. Since 1935 the Office has been under the official aegis of the College, since 1936 the branch at the Harvard Club in New York has been similarly organized. Harvard has definitely assumed a measure of responsibility for its graduates, and particularly for those negotiating the thorny way from college to career...
...Office, however, does try--efficiently, the record shows--to interview men, classify applicants, introduce them to appropriate businesses and to be a veritable mine of information about many diverse enterprises. Unquestionably, the dispersion of the depression accounts, in part, for the successful placement of so many of last year's men. More important, however, is the spirit of action found in the Office--a spirit that led to Dean Plimpton's touring the country in search of potential employers, to the establishment this year of observations trips through business institutions and plants...
...functioning of the less empyrean regions of University Hall, the informal but informative interviews, and the experimental undertakings clearly demonstrate a real and increasing competence in dealing with graduate placement. Every man who occasionally considers his future bold venture from this safe little college oasis will find the exploration of its effective but little-known machinery interesting...
Through the University Student Employment Office thirteen hundred students, more than one-third of the college enrollment, last year received term-time and summer jobs netting $204,000 in wages, it was reported today by Dean George F. Plimpton, in charge of Student Employment and Alumni Placement...
...five short articles each presenting in brief outline some major field of business employment. Because these discussions will be exceedingly brief, their value, if any, must be merely suggestive. For more adequate information on any of the subjects treated here underclassmen and seniors are invited to the Alumni Placement Office in Room R. University Hall. The succeeding articles will be presented as follows...