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Fully as important as the actual placement of seniors is the service rendered by the Placement Office in aiding students to make a vocational choice--not only among the various opportunities in industry itself, but also more generally between business and entirely different professional occupations. The quantitative significance of this function is strikingly indicated by the fact that almost 53 per cent of the seniors registering last year with the Office had no ideas or intentions concerning an occupation...
...Placement Office is to perform this function efficiently, it is of the utmost desirability that students intending to seek its aid register early in their college careers--even in the sophomore year. The services which the Office can then render them are of a somewhat intangible nature, but nevertheless of great value. It can, first of all, start them thinking seriously and correctly about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when...
...only the early registrant--in adjusting his college career so that he will better qualify for a position on graduation. This means impressing him with the importance of maintaining a satisfactory record and of the desirability of participating in extra-curricular activities. Early and long acquaintance with the Placement Office results in a personal contact without which it cannot render its maximum service to each individual...
...underdog, boss government built its cadres of loyalists," Marx said in explanation of this American phenomenon. Its specialty has been "competitive modulation between individual clients and agencies vested with formal authority." The economic basis of Boss government has been "in the privilege market and the control of placement opportunities...
...Deacons assumed the lead in the first quarter when Earl Foster went over center on a mousetrap play and kept right on going until he hit the end zone. Jack McClure tacked on another point with a placement...