To Dean Schneider's delight the plan worked well that the works through which the students had made their way offered them positions as managers of depart ments or in some other posts that were vacant, and instead of having a plethora of graduates on his hands, he could not supply. the demand, As soon as it became known among the young men of the country that Dean" Schneider's graduates were in demand, applications for admission came in from all sides "literally by the thousand, although he ~—had. accommodation in the College for only 400, Consequently he raised his. standards for entrance, Still the applicants who were qualified were so numerous that he compelled to Also as the good news spread among the—manufacturer other firms that Dean Sel st "filled the bill" applications came in from various firms to have one or more pairs of his cooperative students sent. to their works, so that instead of its being difficult to place the students, as it had been at first, they could now pick and choose among the works, Those concerns that kept. absorbing Dean Schneider's graduates, soon began to forge ahead over their competitors, and now, in the Middle West of the United States, one finds in most of the surviving big concerns, Dean Schneider's men in charge of. departments and sometimes in charge of the works, One Difficulty to Counter What is the result of all. this? When this plan was first started, mong many other difficulties, the different foremen in the plants were unwilling to teach a couple of lads all the operations that his gang of men performed, unless they were going to stay with him. for a good long time. Each foreman has to make his section efficient and turn out "certain Z{amoynt of product freach employes, He tries to keep down the later turnover to the minimum, for the training of ench new man on the job costs from £200 up. So that at the beginning of Dean Schneider's adventure, had the greatest difficulty imagine able in shifting his students on om job to job as they went up through the factory. In' fact, he appointed a special professor act as coordinator, whose duty it was to go round the works—and gather the complaints of students who had been kept in jobs long. after they had mastered all detail This difficulty has not yet quite disappeared, but in works departments where the Dean's men are now in charges all such things are attended to by them and the students have a friend at court.
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