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Since last year, all matters connected with student employment and alumni placement have been under the supervision of Associate Dean Plimpton. Unquestionably the coordination of these related problems has meant more efficient and more intelligent guidance of students in search of employment while in college or upon graduation...
...many young men who have just been "received into the society of educated men" find themselves spurned, at least temporarily, by that larger and supposedly less select society known as the world. It was just for the purpose of proposing new members for the larger society that the Alumni Placement Office was organized...
...agency can and should be of use to undergraduates, particularly Seniors. Even if one feels assured of a position upon graduation, it is advisable to go to the Alumni Placement Office to test one's ability "to create an opportunity" and perhaps find, as a result, that a choice of occupations is possible. But for the majority, who do not know where their bread will come from after four festive years, and who are beginning to be bothered by the twin imps of doubt and perplexity, nothing could be more valuable...
...theory of the Freshman Advisory System is infinitely better than the fact. Designed to beget a "proper placement in courses and a friendly interest and readiness on the part of the Advisor to talk over the various decisions", its practice has brought much disappointment to first-year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time...
...style is closely related to that of the sculpture in the Cathedral at Burgos, a key monument of Spanish art. Archeologically, coming from a dated sarcophagus, it is of importance in adding another placement date to the Cathedral...