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...problem of what to do with it in the other. Although the bulk of Harvard graduates traditionally have found good employment, the lack of University employment guidance of the sort furnished by many other colleges became noticeable in recent years, and with the creation of the Office of Student Placement in 1945 an effort was made to answer the need. This office has done much, but it does not measure up to the standards set by colleges such as M.I.T. and Yale...
Today, as the Placement Bureau at Yale noted last week, "employers are becoming extremely selective." In the face of this fact, which is directly related to the increased competition inevitable in a time when more college graduates are being turned loose on American employers than ever before, the Office of Student Placement has declared that "there is no employment office as such at Harvard. Here is the core of the problem: the emphasis is placed not on helping to find specific jobs for students, not on making actual contacts between students and possible employers, but on the general principle...
Last-term Seniors who have not met their language requirement were advised yesterday by William Berrien, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, that his department would offer them a special Placement Test "as a convenience" on April...
...They may achieve a satisfactory grade on placement examinations given in French, German, and Spanish at the beginning of each term...
Your red-bordered article on atomic activity coming directly after and alongside [two articles headed] "Hunger, Unabated," and "Thirst, Unslaked" [TIME, Feb. 10] is masterly placement...