Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer jobs averaging $45 a week are open to juniors and seniors who want to work with the Civil Service's Students Aid Program, the Student Placement Office announced yesterday. Only catch in the deal comes early this month in the form of a standard examination...
...Student Placement Office has received invitations from five national firms for undergraduates to come in and visit them during the Christmas vacation in reference to both full time and summer jobs...
This assurance came yesterday from John W. Teele '28, Director of Student Placement. Teele's statement was prompted by an article in yesterday's New York Times in which Frank S. Endicott, Placement head at northwestern University, stressed the "leveling-off" in the acceptance by the nation's large firms...
Similar courses, especially in the Romance Languages Department, neatly avoid the problem by handing newcomers a placement test, repeated every term, and allocating students to classes of varying difficulty on the basis of their sources. The result is that these students move just as fast as their abilities permit. An identical system would go far to help English A. If a placement test were substituted for the Anticipatory--perhaps something along the lines of the late-lamented College Board Achievement Tests in English--it could split the course into far more interesting and efficient sections of comparable skill...
Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...