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Many undergraduates, particularly seniors, are beginning to wonder if the tide in their affairs is not already lapping at their feet. As the sands of college life disappear they will see one beacon by which to set their course--the Alumni Placement Office. Since 1935 the Office has been under the official aegis of the College, since 1936 the branch at the Harvard Club in New York has been similarly organized. Harvard has definitely assumed a measure of responsibility for its graduates, and particularly for those negotiating the thorny way from college to career...
Through the University Student Employment Office thirteen hundred students, more than one-third of the college enrollment, last year received term-time and summer jobs netting $204,000 in wages, it was reported today by Dean George F. Plimpton, in charge of Student Employment and Alumni Placement...
This is the first of five articles written for the CRIMSON by Donald H. Moyer '27, of the Alumni Placement Bureau, on "Business and industry as a Field of Opportunity for College...
...reduce these fantasies to practical terms and to bring some order to the confused thinking and bewilderment of the undergraduate who is "going into business" is a basic function of the Alumni Placement Office. For two reasons college men seeking employment in business and industry should see clearly what their opportunities are and choose intelligently among them. First is fitness for the job and the rewards which come from satisfactory placement. Any reasonably intelligent and personable college man can do many jobs well; he cannot, however, do every jobs well. A thorough and systematic appraisal of business and industrial opportunities...
...five short articles each presenting in brief outline some major field of business employment. Because these discussions will be exceedingly brief, their value, if any, must be merely suggestive. For more adequate information on any of the subjects treated here underclassmen and seniors are invited to the Alumni Placement Office in Room R. University Hall. The succeeding articles will be presented as follows...