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Teele emphasized, in an exclusive interview with the SERVICE NEWS, that the precise details of his program are no more complete than are his offices which are now being built in Weld Hall. He said that the problem of student placement was of fairly large scale and was tied up with the whole problem of education...
More than just a clearing house for job offers and job applicants, the Student Placement Office, according to Teele, will study the whole problem of how best to place men. It will examine from time to time the intelligence and vocational tests developed at Stevens Institute, in Hoboken, and elsewhere, though as yet there is no planned program to use such tests. Whether those tests will be important is hard to say, said Teele; results may be deceptive in that men of high intelligence may lack the drive and personality necessary for some types of work...
...Office is primarily for the College, Teele stated. Most of the graduate schools have their own placement offices, he said, indicating the Business School's Office, run by Dean Edmond F. Wright, as a primary example...
...Student Employment Office, which seeks to place students in spare-time jobs while they are at College, has operated continuously through the war, said Teele. The Alumni Placement Office, which was supported chiefly by the Alumni Office, closed in 1941, he continued...
Teele said that the Student Employment Office would not operate as an alumni placement bureau, that it would not assume the task of permanent placement of all Harvard graduates. The program of the Office, he said, would try instead, to prepare students to cope with whatever employment problems than might come up in their post-graduate careers...