APPOINTMENT OFFICE HAS PLACED 153 IN PAST YEAR

The annual report of the Harvard Alumni Appointment Office for 1919-1920, recently published, announcing the placing of 153 graduates of the University in positions with a total of $273,205.00 in salaries, presents some interesting points for consideration. Of the many kinds of business and professional work into which graduates have entered through the Alumni appointment Office, manufacturing, of one kind and another, has acquired the most men, 75 positions having been filled in this line of business by the office. Sixteen men went into mercantile work, while public accounting, with ten graduates occupying positions, and foreign trade, with eight, are third and fourth in regard to employing men through the agency to employing men through the agency of the Alumni Appointment Office.

Co-operating with the Alumni Association and certain departments of the University, and various Harvard clubs. The Graduate School of business Administration has filled fourteen positions, the School of Landscape Architecture eight, and the Divisions of Chemistry, Economics, Government and Physics several each. The Harvard Clubs of new York City, Cleveland and Milwaukee, and also the Engineering Society of New York have reported men placed.

It is in recognition of the fact that "a graduate out of a job is a bad advertisement for the University," and that a graduate in a job for which he is not suited is also undesirable that the Harvard Alumni Association has for several years maintained its Appointment Office. The purpose of the office is to assist the graduates of the University in securing permanent business and technical positions, which include, broadly, all non-teaching positions; to help them to find the work for which they are best fitted; and to be of assistance to employers inn their search for exceptional men. A full record of each applicant's training and experience, together with references from his former instructors and employers, is on file at the office.

At the present time there are 1700 applicants on the active files of the office. Of these the are three classes: first, men who are available because they have no positions; second, men who are available because they are dissatisfied with their present position; third, men who are well placed and satisfied, but who are available for advancement along specific lines.

Each year there are registered at the office many members of the graduating class of the College, who are ready to start at the bottom. The office also keeps in touch with graduates successfully employed. It is thus able to suggest to employers candidates for positions that entail responsibility or that require specialized training. In order to be of the greatest possible service to both the older and more recent graduates, the office is constantly making efforts to broaden its scope and to extend its facilities to business houses throughout the country.