ALUMNI PLACEMENT

Yesterday morning all Seniors received a double post-card announcing that the Harvard Alumni Placement Bureau was open for appointments about jobs in business and industry, or in industrial science and engineering, next spring. This is the first step in President Conant's plan to "aid members of the graduating class to obtain suitable positions in the business world." The idea is wholly good.

As a side issue to this main objective, a neat administrative reform has been carried out, by combining the Student Employment Office and this new Alumni Placement Office under a separate, special dean. George F. Plimpton, '14, a Buffalo lawyer, has accepted the position.

Another side issue which may prove importantly desirable is that a detailed set of records will be built up to cover each student's whole undergraduate career, which account will be presented to the prospective employer. Perhaps this will make for an added incentive and stimulus in inducing students to do good work, and ingrain more deeply in them the union of undergraduate with graduate life.

Of course this will be Dean Plimpton's first year, so that to a certain extent the present class's treatment must be experimental. But under the guidance of one who has had practical business experience of his own, the new Deanship is bound to have initial and continuously increasing success.