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...Most of C.E.E.B.'s Advanced Placement Pro gram tests already involve essay and discussion questions, even in science...
...advisors et. al.) do a fine job of placing, selling, and guiding the bulk of the senior class. But prospective graduate students in the arts with no foreign fellowship ambitions get little in the way of guidance gladhanding. It is difficult, in the context of the College's present placement system, to find someone who can answer a question like "to which schools do I apply if I want to study the history and culture of modern Germany...
...large Placement Office-type forum provides neither an appropriate opportunity to ask specific questions about graduate departments, nor a felicitous occasion to have them answered...
...other schools' departments makes such consultation appropriate. Yet it would seem quite desirable for the departments to organize such consultations and perhaps to appoint a few knowledgeable members of the Faculty to carry them on in each field. These Faculty members would not be doing distasteful administrative and "guidance placement" work, but rather would be engaged in presumably interesting "shop talk" with students who are potential scholars in their own field...
Five lectures on science and technology will initiate the 1959-60 Harvard Conference on Careers, Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the Office of Student Placement, announced yesterday...