Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Placement Tests...
...importance of grades has been exaggerated by Law Students, as they view the placement picture with a limited perspective, the majority report contended. While the largest law offices in the largest metropolitan areas place a premium on scholastic achievement other law offices are less concerned with grades. The large offices, however, take steps to hire students in advance to fill their needs, while the other firms only hire men already graduated...
Newby spoke in response to a survey by the Illinois Committee on Discrimination in Higher Education, published Sunday in the New York Times, which revealed that less than half the placement offices polled refused to handle discriminatory job orders...
...Illinols Committee's survey found that "a significant number of placement officers ask information about race, religion, or national origin on their own forms. A small number," it continued, "supply this information to employers on a routine basis and a larger number only if requested...
Medicine will be the subject discussed tonight at the last of this year's Conferences on Careers, sponsored by the office of Student Placement, in Leverett House dining hall...