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Through the University Student Employment Office thirteen hundred students, more than one-third of the college enrollment, last year received term-time and summer jobs netting $204,000 in wages, it was reported today by Dean George F. Plimpton, in charge of Student Employment and Alumni Placement...
Cambridge, Dec. 27. A decided increase in the number of positions in private industry open to college graduates was noted by George F. Plimpton '14, Associate Dean of the Alumni Placement Bureau and Student Employment Office...
...uptrend of employment is believed to be partly as result of the reorganization of the office. Plimpton stated that under the new reorganization "It is now possible to register ap- plicants not only in greater numbers but also earlier in the year, thus enabling the placement office to interview more thoroughly and become better acquainted with them and their individual problems before employers begin to seek their services. "As the placement work becomes more widely known it is expected that students will register with the office in Junior or even Sophomore year, thus enabling the staff to start knowing them...
...general function of Alumni Placement was described by Dean Plimpton in Monday's CRIMSON, Summarized briefly, its purpose is that of a clearing house for information on business occupations and specific job opportunities. The Alumni Placement Office considers the individual student responsible for choosing his own career and securing his own job; there is no wish to influence a Senior in the choice of his life work, nor obviously can the office literally get him a job. Each registrant will, however, be assisted to make his choice of work a rational one, and the Office will use its full resources...
...position of Dean Plimpton and his associates is essentially that of broker or middleman. He cannot and would not, if he could, pull jobs out of his pockets like a beneficent Santa Claus. But his organization can and does perform all in its power "to help a man help himself...