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...graduates of girls' colleges hunt jobs the wrong way? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising director of Manhattan's Gimbels department store ("Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels") thinks they do. Last week, speaking in Manhattan to the deans and placement directors of 100 women's colleges, Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, who can make Broadway slang sell girdles, gave them some breezy advice on job-hunting...
...trouble today, concluded Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, is that too many college placement bureaus never dream of putting their brightest liberal-arts graduates into "lush" secretarial jobs or the retail-store business, but send them into "fusty, dusty publishing houses ... I think the reason you people steer them there-one college places a full third of its graduates in jobs of that type-is because of our American Puritanical background. If it was hard and dull and didn't pay much, it was good for you, and the harder and duller and littler it paid, the more respectable it must...
...Winthrop Puritans gained control of the game early in the second quarter when Gordon Chase intercepted a Bellboy pass on the Lowell 35 and ran it back to the 15. Three plays later, Sheehy, a sophomore halfback, went over for the score. Ray Daley converted with a placement...
...requirements introduce another element, not previously considered, time. Under the new plan, if a student cannot pass the placement test and has had less than two years of language in secondary school, he must take two full years of languages. On the other hand, if he has taken at least two years in high school, he needs only one year here. But that one year can include a semester reviewing the elementary aspects of the language, and another semester of an intermediate course. Thus, while a student could satisfy the old requirement by passing a full year...
...requirement can still be satisfied by passing the placement test, but that was true under the old plan. The objectionable part of the revised standards is its reasoning: It equates proficiency in a subject with the length of time it is studied. The purpose of a language requirement is to make sure that everyone who receives a degree can read a foreign language. The new requirement implies that this skill will automatically come with either one or two years' exposure. Now, with time the basis, a student can pass the requirement with the equivalent of a year and a half...