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Bigwood was referring to a policy of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans to emphasize placement and career planning for undergraduates, rather than finding jobs for alumni. According to Dean Monro, since the office reopened after World War II, it has not tried to place alumni, especially those of five years' standing...
Recently, this policy has been firmly established by a vote of the Faculty, and the name of the office has been changed from the Office of Student Placement to the present title. "Since there are more than 50,000 Harvard alumni," Richard G. King, Director of the Office, explains, "we can't do the job for all. We don't pretend to be able to help men like Bigwood...
...crusade, Bigwood has enlisted the aid of Langdon Parker Marvin, Jr. '41, of Washington, D.C., who he said was "Roosevelt's God-son." Bigwood quoted a letter from Marvin saying, "As an Overseer, I imagine JFK would be very interested in any ruling that the Placement Office at Harvard would not do anything for alumni over a certain...
...would also be of no little interest to me since I put through the Student Council report enlarging the Placement Office from dealing with small and summer or part-time jobs to being a real placement service for alumni...
Stein however, would prefer to rent a test from the College Entrance Examination Board. Having helped draw up the Board's Advanced Placement test in German, he commented, "I know how hard the tests are to make, and how good the CEEB tests...