Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first floor and basement will be turned over to the use of the Library where various miscellaneous activities now carried on behind the scenes in Widener will find place. Book bindings, cataloguing of unclassified works and the storage of some few volumes, duplicate books, or books that have lost any value in the Library, will be located on these floors. Many of the old or duplicate books will be temporarily placed here before their sale to second hand dealers or miscellaneous buyers...
...shell during the workout and B. J. Harrison '29, another strong contender for the stroking berth, was pulling the No. 6 car in the first eight. Allerton Cushman '29 who has also been given an opportunity to prove his worth in the stroke position was back at his old place at No. 5 yesterday afternoon...
...departments. It may be argued that Harvard, because, of its location, or some tradition of individualism, has less need of vocational guidance. This point of view, however, seems a confusion of the question, in that more opportunities for placement are not sufficient to guide undecided Seniors in choosing a place. The problem, in other words, is bigger than local differences and is apparently becoming more pressing in proportion as the opportunities open to college men increase. Harvard has already recognized this need for guidance in the appointment in 1923 of a Faculty Committee, under Professor C. N. Greenough, with...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...
...second place, vocational guidance should never decide for the student but should merely stimulate him to decide for himself. It should suggest possibilities, give information, point out difficulties, stimulate personal investigation and decision, but never dictate. This seems obvious; but it is important that the man giving advice should do it as an understanding friend rather than as a technical expert performing an autopsy...