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...help solve this annual, large-scale employment problem, the Office of Student Placement was opened in Weld Hall at the end of the war. Now fully established with an impressive record already behind it, the Office is preparing a year-long schedule of counseling and advisory services that will reach every Senior in the College by June...
Letters like these drew almost one-hundred percent response from the Seniors a year ago. Many of the recipients previously had not known about the Student Placement Office. A series of career conferences for 1948-1949, similar to those held last winter, is also being planned by Teele's office. These meetings, held at regular intervals during the winter months, bring to the College leaders in field such as marketing and publishing who speak and answer student's questions...
...answer seems to lie about two and a half blocks to the southwest, in the Holyoke House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose...
...survey conducted by the Committee on Placement showed that universities give employers information about the Ph.D.'s, but don't help out the job-hunter. As a result, the analysis showed that this same Ph.D. has had to cast about himself for a college position...
Looking beyond the problem of inefficient placement, the HTU commented that the entire teaching profession is haphazardly organized and is expanding without direction. "The immediate prospect for the academic profession," the HTU concluded, "is rapid curtailment...