A DOUBLE NEGATIVE

To bring up the Employment and Appointment offices seems almost as unnecessary as to call attention to Widener Library. Everyone knows that they exist, and if they are needed, they will be used--supposedly. Yet there are many Freshmen apparently who have scarcely heard of the Student Employment Office; and there are Seniors who have forgotten the existence of that agency, and as yet know little or nothing about the graduate bureaus, the University and Alumni Appointment offices.

The Student Employment office, as the name implies, is primarily for undergraduates who desire temporary positions of any sort, either during term time or in vacations. The Appointment offices, on the other hand, are for graduates. The University Appointment office on the fourth floor of University Hall offers teaching positions only; the Alumni Appointment office on State street handles non-teaching positions of all sorts, primarily although not exclusively for those who are seeking an opening which may develop into a permanent line of business.

Last year the Appointment Office found positions for over one hundred and fifty graduates; and the students who obtained work through the Student Employment office earned many thousand dollars. The existing agencies are rendering a valuable service--and at no cost to the applicants. The more that service is used, the more the facilities will be extended, and the sooner will the desirable unification of the employment bureaus be made. This unification should mean as well the introduction of ideas that have been tried out successfully in the administration of the employment service at other universities.