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...During the late winter and early spring a familiar figure in college placement offices is the industrial recruiter, whose task is to select young men for apprenticeship jobs in the various departments of his company. Usually he represents the larger corporations, and may come from a city a thousand miles away. Harvard is ordinarily but one stop in his itinerary which often includes as many as twenty or more colleges. He is here for a day or so and may interview as many as twenty-five students, some of whom may receive offers of employment from the company several weeks...
Although the industrial recruiter is in a sense the aggressor, the Senior's role is hardly a passive one. The employer's market for apprentices is wide and large, and he comes perhaps to select only one or two men from Harvard. Opportunities from the large corporations are therefore placed on a highly competitive basis and the Senior who compete for an offer must make fully as aggressive and convincing an approach to the recruiter as he would make to any other employer. In this type of employment a Senior subjects himself to the keenest possible competition and his chances...
...from 7 until 11 o'clock auditions will be given all undergraduates with no discrimination as to class or previous experience. The first brief trials will test only the voices and appearances of the candidates. Next week the director of the play, a New York coach, will select the actual players for the fourteen male parts. Radcliffe and Erskine School are counted upon to supply twelve actresses...
...singular thing, but a fact, that many young men who have just been "received into the society of educated men" find themselves spurned, at least temporarily, by that larger and supposedly less select society known as the world. It was just for the purpose of proposing new members for the larger society that the Alumni Placement Office was organized...
...will, but in the interest of conserving tutors' time, no movements in the other direction should be allowed. The difficulties with the History Department's proposition that men be allowed a free hand in choosing their categories are apparent. Many ambitious men of slight ability or inadequate preparation would select Plan A, only to find themselves unable to cope with such a difficult program...