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...With the amount of new securities issues around one-third of the 1926-29 average, underwriters have been further bypassed by private placements. Last week came the biggest private-placement blow yet: American Tel. & Tel. sold $140,000,000 of 2¾% bonds direct to 14 insurance companies. In better times underwriters would have made about $2,800,000 from a 2-point spread on this issue. (Snubbed also were A. T. & T.'s good friends the Metropolitan and Equitable. Reason: SEC's forthcoming insurance study is expected to criticize insurance companies' interlocking directorates with companies selling...
This data has been collected over a period of some twenty years during which vocational placement has become a complete science...
...Lamermen started off with a bang in the initial canto with Vander Eb's placement, and increased their lead to 10 to 0 in the second period on a 2b-yard pass from Gus Bigwood to George Haydock and a conversion by Greely Summers...
Members of the Placement Office staff, in their headquarters in the basement of University Hall, talk over with students problems about finding jobs and direct them to other sources of information, whether books, company pamphlets, or graduate reports. More of an employment agency than a vocational guidance bureau, the Placement Office does not advise students as to what profession or business they should enter...
Probably the most useful of all material available in the Placement Office is a collection of Work Histories of Harvard graduates in business and industry. Dating from 1933 to 1940, these histories are vocational autobiographies in which from year to year alumni report progress in their careers...