Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general inferiority and inadequacy in the educational training falsities of the country. Normal schools everywhere should be jacked up if they are not to be conspicuous for their uselessness. Perhaps an ideal school for training teachers will be an impossibility for a long time to come. But the successful placement of the graduates of the Harvard Graduate School is a striking illustration of the crying need for more satisfactory schools of education...
...statement concerning the accomplishment of the Alumni Placement Bureau during the past year, J. F. Dwinnell has added much fuel to the fire of those who maintain that colleges, by a process of protective coddling, unfit their students for effective participation in a calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them...
Close to $50,000 is being paid to students of the Business School this year through a number of work scholarships. One of the scholarship groups provides for placement of 140 men at work in the dining halls. For their board throughout the academic year, they are required to spend 45 hours out of each two week period doing some sort of routine work. In this group is included a number of men who are filling the 36 positions in kitchen and pantry assignments which were formerly held by female help...
After they graduate, extra-curricular "big shots" retain the competitive spirit of their college days. According to a survey made by the Personal Study and Graduate Placement Bureaus, former campus leaders meet success sooner than their loss prominent classmates. Their salaries are higher. Though the survey takes in only a small group, its findings are plausible enough to be accepted as accurate...
...graduating from the Business School in June 1931 who applied to the Placement Bureau of the School for positions, only 35 remain unplaced. The total number of degrees granted was 383, but 22 of these failed to answer inquiries and offers of assistance, eight were foreign students and eight were engaged in further study or travel, leaving a total...