Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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 Mr. Delmar Leighton as secretary,--the work was discontinued in 1927. The fact that Harvard Seniors are not now vociferous in demanding guidance seems to this committee to indicate only their unconsciousness of the lack of a service to which they have not become accustomed...
...secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve incessant and often apparently useless interviews. Faculty members giving such guidance would be obliged to drop nearly all their academic work. If the members of the committee were not active, the work would presumably be done by the secretary. Insofar as the secretary were permanent, accessible, and capable he would fill the qualifications mentioned above. But a qualified and full time salaried adviser
Despite the existence of other colleges for women before Radcliffe, the collegiate education of women was regarded at the time of the college's foundation as a rather visionary proposal. The good will of the Harvard faculty had been won in 1878, to a considerable extent by the work of Miss Abby Leach, who had come to Cambridge and taken private instruction from Professors Child, Goodwin and Greenough in English, Greek and Latin respectively. Her sound scholarship (she later served as a professor at Vassar) leveled many objections to collegiate instruction of women...
...such backing the enterprise was courageous. Today it is almost inconceivable that the college was started without endowment and that the resources of its backers were so slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs...