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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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companies after graduation. Bythe onset of World War I, this activ-ity had expanded into some organizedinterviewing on college campuses bya few System companies. With the expansion of the tele-phone business in the twenties, therewas an increased need for collegegraduates, and most of the Systemcompanies began to visit college cam-puses regularly in search of first-ratemen—still largely graduates in engi-neering and physical science. In 1922a coordinated plan for college recruit-ing in the Bell System was established.This plan, which has been developedand improved over three decades, isin effect today. Purpose of the Program The Bell Systems college employ-ment program exists for the purposeof securing from the countrys col-leges and universities the services ofyoung men and women who can pro-vide specialized knowledge and skillsand, in addition, a leadership poten-tial to supplement that of outstandingemployees who are coming up throughthe r^ks. EmploymentJor College Graduates 113
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Part oj the Murray Hilt, N. J., iyistallation of the Bell Telephone Laboratories The program is a natural out-growth of the increasing number ofyoung people who take advantage ofthe many opportunities in this coun-try to obtain college educations. In1900, only one young person in 60graduated from college; today aboutone in eight does so.* For men, thepresent ratio would be about one inseven;* for women, one in eleven,since men receive more than sixty percent of todays bachelors degrees. No longer do the colleges attractonly those students who come fromwell-to-do families, as was largely thecase fifty years ago. Regardless oftheir parents circumstances, manyyoung people of ability and determi-nation now find reasonable ways tosecure college training, and enter theirlife work only after completing it. The native ability of most gradu-ates, moreover, has been further de-veloped by intellectual discipline andcontact with many different fields of * Ratios do not include veterans whose grad

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