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...last year's Harvard Law School graduates currently employed with private firms, the more than 100 laboring in New York City earn between $18,000 and $26,500, while the remainder of the class, particularly the fifth who work for the government, earn appreciably less, Eleanor Roberts Appel, placement director at the Law School, said...
Although he says the GSAS is already "very competitive" with the graduate schools of other major universities in its job placement track record, Keenan believes the individual departments "can and will do more" to find academic appointments for their students in the future...
Keenan says that the method of record keeping used by the graduate school makes an exact estimate of how well Harvard Ph.D.'s are faring in the job market impossible. Each department compiles its own study, and each uses its own criteria to determine what constitutes job placement. (In one department work as a bank officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because...
What drawing is to other artists, tearing is to Motherwell. Nowhere is his balance between accident and elegance more apparent than in his big collages, with their torn and pasted edges of stiff paper, so casually exact in placement. Works like NRF Collage No. 4, 1973, have an almost Olympian detachment about them. The sense of classical well-being furnished by Motherwell's recent work reminds one of an English epicure's definition of heaven: "Eating fresh foie gras to the sound of trumpets...
...vocabulary would baffle courtroom buffs. There are "contacts" rather than arrests, "fact findings" instead of trials, "findings" in place of convictions. If guilt is established, the judge may order a "placement," not a sentence...