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...their senior year, about one half of each class enters a course in Industrial Psychology taught by George H. Estabrooks, a well-known psychologist and Colgate legend. "I explain the bases of industry and hope they'll absorb some Industrial Psychology. And, oh yes, I run the New York Placement office," says Dr. Estabrooks...
...President Josiah Quincy came upon a rough sketch of college arms: Veritas and the three volumes. The last of the volumes in the original drawing was not opened like the first two, but was half-closed with the inscription on its back binding. Apprehensive lest such a placement be interpreted as a critique of education, Quincy revised the scal so that each book was spread open...
...survey of 145 major companies by the Midwestern Placement Association resulted in good news for college seniors, food for thought for economists: next year's college graduates can expect better-paying jobs than ever before. Sixty-four companies reported that they would give higher starting salaries than they gave this year; not one company expected to pay less. Inexperienced graduates taking technical jobs (engineers, chemists, physicists) can expect monthly salaries of from $301 to $375; nontechnical beginners might have to take as little as $276 a month...
...month (May 1951), more than $1,200 was raised in the ist Cavalry Division for "Operation Mascot," a project for the placement in Korean orphanages of Korean children who had served as mascots for the division...
...Charles E. Wilson or 'Red-hunt ing' Joe McCarthy, he is influencing the reaction of readers in a somewhat nonobjective way, even though he can defend his choice of words with undisputed proof. Honest newspapermen will admit, also, that they unavoidably influence reader reaction by [the placement of] articles . . . The mere fact that an article is on page 1 is an unobjective admission that the editors consider it important...