Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilcox said, was that a large number of students had both the training and the desire to take courses more advanced than the old lower-level offerings such as Nat Sci 2 or 4. He estimated that there are 500 entering freshmen each year with advanced placement in mathematics...
...understandably cynical. Many students had come to feel that the Law School's administration opposed any sort of student-initiated change. Yet it has become clear that a shake-up at the Law School--ranging from a re-evaluation of extracurricular activities to a tightening of procedures in the Placement Office--is certainly possible. A sizeable number of professor heartily sympathize with student complaints and are anxious to help the committee force action, instead of burying the issues in painful deliberation...
Thus far the committee has submitted only one proposal to Dean Griswold--that the Law School issue a statement pledging itself to do what it can to end discrimination by law firms hiring students through the Placement Office. Late last month Griswold announced that the committee's recommendations had become official policy...
...only affirmed Harvard's adherence to state law. But more important, it recognized a much-discussed student grievance. Many students had thought the Law School would refuse to take up the matter. Specific cases of bias are, after all, difficult to pinpoint, and the director of the Law School Placement Office denied allegations that she told students not to apply to certain law firms...
...placement of personnel in the early years of the regime was shrewd and rational. The top leaders (i.e., the Politburo) took up their tasks in Peking. At the same time they sent to the provinces a strong group of second-echelon leaders, tried and tested by two or more decades of revolutionary allegiance to the CCP. Ignoring the traditional Chinese reluctance to place officials in their native provinces, a remarkably high percentage of second- and third-echelon leaders were dispatched to administer areas where they had been born or areas where they had studied as students or worked as revolutionists...