Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged with bankers, sales managers, and manufacturing executives in Boston. These men explained the advantages and disadvantages of their occupations and described typical problems encountered in a day's work. On hearing the talks the Senior definitely decided that manufacturing was the field for him, and through the Alumni Placement service, which also maintains offices in Wadsworth House, he succeeded in finding a job in a rubber factory, where the work is proving thoroughly satisfactory...
...consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine out of his opponent's last 16 service games. Doeg, never surefooted, never brilliant, aced him 28 times, played Tilden's deep backhand to thwart the maestro's terrific placement game. With the match score 10-8, 6-3, 3-6 in Doeg's favor, the crowd sat on the edge of their cushions at the beginning of the last set. Still quarreling with decisions, Tilden mustered all his declining strength, twice made breathless leaps for "impossible" shots that...
...year before graduation. Then let their courses for the last year be arranged with some regard for the alternatives open to them in their freshman year. Such further examinations as might be desired at the end of the secondary period would be for these boys a means of determining placement in freshman courses, exemption from courses otherwise required, admission to more advanced or "honors" courses in college. A guarded experiment in this direction might throw light upon other measures designed for candidates of average rather than superior qualifications...
...produced a good deal of rather bad "rationalization" to justify their position, and drifted uneasily into the morasses of a vocational training which as often as not was quite useless to train anybody for a vocation. At the same time they turned in another direction, and the employment or "placement" bureau appeared in hundreds of institutions which felt themselves under an obligation not only to "educate" their students but to get them started in some sort of life that would satisfy them. The results -- and President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette has described some of them in a recent brochure...
...problem of the graduating armles is not solved. The colleges are still somewhat confused in their efforts, and even the best academic "education" coupled with the most discerning and intelligent placement work may still fall short of giving the undergraduate any real concept of what the affair of living and making a living involves. But the colleges are undoubtedly trying hard, and if above the whole of their effort there hovers the shadow of institutionalization of conscious 'teaching" rather than of natural learning, it is no darker than the similar shadow above all our efforts at managing the life which...