Word: placements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jervis Jefferis Babb, former president and director of Lever Brothers Company, will be the final speaker on the Office of Student Placement's series of evening talks on career possibilities tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett Common Room...
This year's series of career talks represents a significant departure from the programs of previous years. Thomas J. Crooks, director of Student Placement, decided that individual talks would stimulate more interest in the careers program than the panel discussions which had been used in the past...
...electrode. But all eventually need stage three: a week after implantation, the doctors send a gentle electric current through the electrode to find out whether the patient feels a tingling in his fingers, arm or foot (always on the side opposite the electrode). This gives yet another check on placement. Finally they use a strong enough current, under anesthesia, to destroy a small part of the thalamus...
Agreeing with Raubinger's charge that any evaluation of high schools in terms of the Merit winners and semi-finalists they produce is "foolish," Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, said he entirely supported the view that national testing should not determine college placement...
...increasing the supply of teachers is all to the good. We shall need twice as many college teachers in 10 years as we have now. I am very much impressed by the statistics in the Immediate Plans of the Class of 1958 published by the Office of Student Placement. Since my undergraduate days at Harvard, it has been said that the best students go to the Law School, the next best to the Medical School, and Arts and Sciences and Business then must make their selections. Actually, the 1958 Class gives an indication of a reversal of this trend. Twenty...