Word: placement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year the Placement Bureau, a vital arm of the Administrative body, as any Senior will testify, was looped off at the shoulder. The University fired James Durnell and Donald Moyer, the latter an A-1 contact man who is working at Cornell this year as Director of Personell with wider powers than most Harvard deans; left behind is a useless remnant-several files listing industrial representatives and job opportunities which at present languish in the Dean's Office, and an experienced secretary, working this year in the NYA office. This drastic amputation, which saved the University approximately...
...Administration runs something like this: if a graduate takes a job with only his A.B. degree as bargaining power, he will be forced to accept a menial job with menial pay. The only way to prevent such "exploitation" is training in one of the various graduate schools. Abolishing the Placement Bureau would thus have the effect of encouraging the jobless office-door vagrants to continue for another three years at some University, possibly Harvard...
...other strongly-supported theory which excused the removal of the Placement Bureau in the eyes of the Administration postulates that Harvard is an educational institution; better, then, to save $18,000 by ridding the budget of the expense of a Bureau alien to Harvard's proper function than to eliminate something intellectual with an equivalent cost...
...their future life. That ideal does not imply that every college should be a vocational training school. Harvard Faculty and students unitc in the conviction that a training in the liberal arts is the best way to develop character, intellect, and possibilities for future usefulness. Yet by abolishing the Placement Bureau, the Administration has done much to render the ideal of preparation irreconcilable with practice. The most important function of any Harvard graduates's life is his work, and no expense should be spared-much less $18,000 in rendering all possible aid in securing him not only...
...proponents had claimed, in itself the way to give the little investor a share in prime new security issues; 2) Halsey, Stuart answered its own contention that competition means higher prices to the issuing company by offering the lowest bid of the lot; 3) private placement won the competitive bidding argument without even engaging...