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Either way, the Office of Student Placement in Weld Hall guarantees you the inside story...
From 1908 to 1935, placement after graduation was an alumni responsibility. Then the University took it over, and has carried out its functions ever since, except for the war periods...
...Placement operations have expanded enormously since the Committee days. Since 1945 the present office has placed well over 2,000 graduating seniors in big business jobs, or in government departments. Thousands more have been given help in finding jobs for themselves...
Despite the exotic requests of some employers, "Placements is a little more than getting a job," says John W. Teele, the office's present director, and also the University's Director of Personnel. "Our idea of good placement is that it follows from the right kind of counselling. A possible objective for us might be to try and place the whole of our graduating class. But I think the most important standard to aim at, is the qualitative one does the man like...
Many critics, from employers to students, disagree with this whole approach. They say the success of a placement policy stands or falls by the quantity of men it gets placed. They point approving fingers at mid-Western colleges like Chicago or Michigan where placement agencies often boast getting jobs for 100 percent of the graduating class...