Word: senior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present system of selecting all the Senior class officers by a test of popularity is a custom which should be classed as obsolete. The officers fall naturally into two groups--those which are purely honorary--the marshals for example, and those involving a certain amount of responsibility and work such as the poet, the odist, the secretaries and the various committees...
Many members of the class have never even seen the candidates and often see them for the first time on Class Day. The poems of winners are printed in the Senior Album and are read at the Class Day exercises. Why should future classes continue to elect blindly when better talent, perhaps not so well known is in the class...
...need for vocational guidance has already been discussed. It is apparent in the rapidly expanding Senior placement work of the present part-time employment office in University Hall under Mr. Walker W. Daly. Statistics already quoted indicate the vagueness of the great majority of Seniors in touch with that office as to what they can do and want to do after college. Guidance will be further necessitated by the forthcoming enlargement of the alumni appointment office, now under Miss Ruth B. Monk, which has offered to handle the placing of Seniors as well as alumni. Since the alumni have offered...
...same token, all such guidance should be voluntary and not compulsory on the student. Compulsory interviews would always be conducted under an 'obvious psychological handicap. Moreover, relatively few students are interested in vocational advice until the senior year. The experience of the Dartmouth office and Mr. Daly's office indicates this. Hence the compulsory guidance of underclassmen would be in the nature of an imposition, as well as superfluous. Vocational guidance, in short, should make its own way on its own merits...
Meanwhile, 100 Seniors have been interviewed by prospective employers as a result of the bulletin sent out from the Employment office last week. Fully a quarter of the Senior Class has applied to University L for help and of this number it is estimated by W. W. Daly '14, secretary, that between 75 and 85 of those men graduating will be able the secure permanent positions through the medium of the Employment Office...