Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further counselling would be available from National Service Placement Centers. There young men wanting to enter non-military service, but unsure about which particular activity they prefer, could take mental and physical tests, train in a given skill, and learn about openings in the volunteer world...
Heyns dealt deftly with the newest problem by conceding trifles but refusing to give on principles. He yielded on the military recruiting issue, decided that recruiters should either seek student sponsorship to operate in the student-run union building or work through the campus placement service like other employers. But he refused to deal with nonstudents at all, shunned any discussions in which Non-Student Mario Savio, who tends bar at a near-campus student hangout when not agitating on campus, would take part, if only as a silent observer...
...Exposition and Historical Inquiry" and "Exposition and Scientific Methods." Of the 250 enrolled in these half-year seminars, 80 per cent are super-literate freshmen who pulled the required 700's on both the verbal and math SAT's and 4's or 5's on the CEEB Advance Placement exam in English. The rest are upperclassmen who managed to impress section men with their enthusiasm or need for writing instruction at interviews this fall...
...this vein, Samuels and Schlesinger request that the Placement Office attempt to get more summer employment for first-year students. But at the same time, they demand the exclusion from Placement Office facilities of any law firm that discriminate in its hiring...
...clerks on the floor of the American Stock Exchange. John Fanning of Manhattan's Fanning Personnel Agency says that the shortage of secretaries "is the tightest we've ever seen"; a competent young secretary in New York can get $110 a week. Like many training and placement agencies, the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School offers refresher courses for older graduates who have been busy raising children, but now want to get back to work...