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...recognition of the fact that "a graduate out of a job is a bad advertisement for the University," and that a graduate in a job for which he is not suited is also undesirable that the Harvard Alumni Association has for several years maintained its Appointment Office. The purpose of the office is to assist the graduates of the University in securing permanent business and technical positions, which include, broadly, all non-teaching positions; to help them to find the work for which they are best fitted; and to be of assistance to employers inn their search for exceptional...
...free to select and pursue a profession or occupation is one of the most fundamental rights a man possesses. This principle must be perpetuated and sustained. When a man exercises his right to take a job he is exchanging his labor for something he wants more. The open shop is a practical application of a man's freedom of choice in this question and hence is in accordance with the American principle of personal freedom...
...services. There is as much reason to control labor unions as corporations and to establish open shops everywhere. The right to organize has a negative as well as an affirmative side. If the union first, the United States second' is the watchword, and if a man cannot get a job unless he joins a union, even although he thoroughly disagrees with its aims, then the principles on which this country was created are in danger of being wiped out and the future existence of the United States threatened...
...dress, deportment approach, and the use of spoken and written English. Shall the graduate go to a small town or a large town? Shall he try to build up his own business, or work for a big corporation or for a small one? How is he to get a job? What jobs are good jobs? How pick his industry? He needs to study himself as a problem with relation to his business and social surroundings. He should have sufficient field work not to learn the detailed routine of special industries but to get a clear conception of the surroundings...
...series of lectures that begin today. In explaining the talks, the pamphlet says: "Among the problems considered are the relation of the man himself to his associates, his superiors, and his subordinates as men: the importance of studying his personal surroundings as well as the technique of his job: the question whether the individual should stick to the job he finds himself on, or make an effort to secure a change in order to get a broader experience. Particular emphasis is placed on the problems arising out of the personal attitude of the individual to his job...