Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help solve this annual, large-scale employment problem, the Office of Student Placement was opened in Weld Hall at the end of the war. Now fully established with an impressive record already behind it, the Office is preparing a year-long schedule of counseling and advisory services that will reach every Senior in the College by June...
Letters like these drew almost one-hundred percent response from the Seniors a year ago. Many of the recipients previously had not known about the Student Placement Office. A series of career conferences for 1948-1949, similar to those held last winter, is also being planned by Teele's office. These meetings, held at regular intervals during the winter months, bring to the College leaders in field such as marketing and publishing who speak and answer student's questions...
...newest features of the Placement Office is the expanded reading room of vocational files and information that was opened this fall. The reading room, which adjoins the Placement Office, contains folders with employment information about all fields, as well as brochures and pamphlets issued by individual companies to aid potential job-seekers. Also on file at the library are transcripts of last year's career conferences, books and magazines of interest to job-seekers, and such other helpful items as telephone directories for most of the nation's large cities...
When a potential job-seeker registers at the Placement Office, he makes out a standard form and receives in return a booklet on vocational counseling prepared under Teele's direction...
...answer seems to lie about two and a half blocks to the southwest, in the Holyoke House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose...