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...creed is to "assist the student in reaching a decision as to what he will do after leaving Harvard, and in implementing that decision once it has been made." Crooks points out that he sees the Office working on what he calls a "laissez-faire" system, in that Student Placement puts no pressure on students to use its facilities in search of a job for later life...
This year, in February and March, over 2000 interviews will be conducted by approximately 175 companies in a program which has proved over the last decade to be mutually beneficial to both student and prospective employer. These individual discussions have been set up by the Office of Student Placement, an organization which, according to its director, Thomas E. Crooks '49, "has not even begun to realize its potential as an aid to the career-seeking student...
...idea of Student placement was initiated by the College as far back as 1885 when the Secretary of the College "was active in this field," but for 60 years, the concept of a permanent office was little more than a whimsical procrastination. In 1945, however, the Office of Student Placement was finally organized with John W. Telle as Director. Since then, the Office has grown in facilities, but not in personnel as the present staff of Crooks, David P. Huntington, and four secretaries is approximately the same staff that held the office together 11 years...
Herter was one of a panel arranged by Thomas E. Crookes '49, head of Student Placement. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, moderated the panel consisting of John Rhome, partner of Hutchins & Wheeler, Boston; Wright Tisdale, Assistant General Counsel of Ford Motor Company; and Herter, partner of Bingham, Dana & Gould...
Advertising men with Trendex troubles, placement problems or sagging sales now have somebody up there who likes them; the Vatican last week named St. Bernardino of Siena as patron saint of advertisers...