Word: placement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been head of the personnel division of the Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State University. He has also given personnel advice to business organizations, has edited Ohio State's Journal of Higher Education. A critic of the "intellectualistic" educational theories of University of Chicago...
...experimental DC-4 which will take to the air next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every...
...direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such cases arise they must at once inform Dean Leighton, who should make use of Dr. Bock, P.B.H., and even the neglected Placement Office...
...preferences for employment expressed by students when registering with the Alumni Placement Office, publishing, on the contrary, amount to no more than one or two a year at best, and the number of opportunities available in this field is always exceedingly limited...
...Alumni Placement Office is another source of information. Whether or not the issue be placement, a senior or underclassman who can have a job for the asking when he graduates is welcome to come here to discuss the factors which should govern his decision. No effort will be made to reach any conclusions for him, nor will he be persuaded against his will even to consider other employment than that which has been offered...