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John W. Teele '27, Boston business consultant and public panel member of the War Labor Board, has been appointed Director of the Office of Student Placement as of July 1, the University announced today...
Teele emphasized, in an exclusive interview with the SERVICE NEWS, that the precise details of his program are no more complete than are his offices which are now being built in Weld Hall. He said that the problem of student placement was of fairly large scale and was tied up with the whole problem of education...
More than just a clearing house for job offers and job applicants, the Student Placement Office, according to Teele, will study the whole problem of how best to place men. It will examine from time to time the intelligence and vocational tests developed at Stevens Institute, in Hoboken, and elsewhere, though as yet there is no planned program to use such tests. Whether those tests will be important is hard to say, said Teele; results may be deceptive in that men of high intelligence may lack the drive and personality necessary for some types of work...
...clock to 5. Placement tests in French, Spanish, New Lecture Hall...
Writer's cramp awaits the neophytes in several forms today. At 11 o'clock many of them will take the examination for exemption from English A in New Lecture Hall; if the test is true to form, only a small fraction will pass. Placement tests in Chemistry, Physics, French, and Spanish will be given this afternoon...