Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 to help each man find the kind of job he wants...
...appraisal of many factors concerning both jobs and men the fall months are devoted to getting acquainted with registrants. Frequent interviews between now and the Reading Period will aim to establish objectives as to type of business and kind of job. These talks should bring to a focus a Senior's aptitudes and interests and an evaluation of his background of study and extra-curricular achievement. All those factors which have a bearing on his career must be properly considered and related in order to avoid wasted effort in hunting...
Facts pertaining to business occupations will require more time for most Seniors to assimilate them than they will be willing to spare in the busy second half of the Senior years. Those men who can devote odd hours now to setting the question of what to do after graduation will have at their disposal many references in the University libraries and the chance for extensive investigation of opportunities reported by friends. For those students who show particular interest in some business or other the Placement Office is now arranging field trips to local companies for observation purposes...
When his father was head coach at Southern Methodist, young Jack Morrison refused to enroll there, said "I want to make good on my own." At Vanderbilt, he made the freshman team. Last year, when Morrison Senior went to Vanderbilt to coach, young Jack switched to Southern Methodist. Last week, benched by an ankle broken in the Fordham game the week before, young Morrison watched Southern Methodist beat Vanderbilt...
...winning major clashes through spectacular and epoch making work, refused to leave their books even to attend dances with girls who travelled all the way from Northampton or Poughkeepsic for the occasion. A certain non-resident student is reported to have worn out seven pairs or pants in his Senior year on Widener's slick seats. On the other hand tradition speaks of other graduates who, in four years attendance at Harvard College spent a total of not more than fifteen of the many months in Cambridge...