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...being raised by a committee of the Harvard Club of New York City to provide for an employment office at the Club under the auspices of the Harvard Alumni Placement Service of Cambridge. This sum will cover the cost of operation of the office for a period of two years, at the end of which time the central office in Cambridge is expected to carry on without further assistance. A considerable portion of the money has already been raised...
Until now the Committee on Appointments has been carrying on all of this placement work, but there is now a strong feeling that it would benefit through the establishment of such an employment office. Last year the Committee filled 27 positions for Harvard men, of which 12 were permanent positions and the remainder temporary ones...
According to an announcement made yesterday by D. H. Moyer, director of the Alumni Placement Service, only 70 per cent of this year's graduating class have returned the occupational questionnaire sent out by the Bureau in November...
...Alumni Placement was founded in September 1929, through the endowment of friends and alumni of the University, for the purpose of placing Harvard men in business and industrial positions. The Bureau, going on the theory that a man can be more advantageously placed if he knows exactly what he wants to do, is working in collaboration with A. L. Putnam '20. Consultant on Careers for the College. The two offices are in Number three, Wadsworth House...
Further plans include an investigation of methods of present organizations occupied in placement service, and cooperation of such agencies as the University Employment office, the city employment officials, state boards, and competent individuals will be sought...