Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While jobs are fewer, graduates need jobs more. College placement bureaus show a large increase of applications over last June. Applicants are less particular than heretofore. Formerly, especially at the New England schools, the graduate expected to spring from the commencement platform to an executive desk. Now he is eager to be even an errand...
...whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary of the Navy Adams: "The use of holystones wears down the decks so rapidly that their repair or re-placement has become an item of expense [cost of replacing a cruiser deck: $50,000] which cannot be met under limited appropriations. The wooden decks of the new 10,000-ton cruisers . . . may be made unserviceable very rapidly by the use of holystones...
...Mason McTurnan '28 was approved yesterday by the Board of Managers of the Harvard Club of New York City to head the employment office which will be established there under the auspices of the Harvard Alumni Placement Service of Cambridge. McTurnan is to take office about April 1. The board at the same time officially approved the foundation of such an office, which had been investigated by a special committee...
Exact details of the relationship between McTurnan and the central office have not yet been worked out. One of the chief objectives of the Harvard Placement Service, according to its director, J. F. Dwinell '02, should be to give work to seniors and alumni in all parts of the country. In New York City particularly, where it is estimated that over 8000 graduates make their home, more placements should be made than in any other place, but up to now the Cambridge office has had few business connections there. The New York representative in his college days was secretary...
...whole class have positions waiting for them when they graduate 107 men had seemed to visit A. L. Putnam '20, consultant on careers, before the time of sending in the questionnaire. As a means of securing a job, 229 students indicated then intention of registering with the Alumnu Placement Service...