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- <text id=91TT1199>
- <title>
- June 03, 1991: Business Notes:Education
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 03, 1991 Date Rape
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- EDUCATION
- Adam Smith And Emily Post
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Etiquette: the word evokes images of crinolines, cotillions
- and debutante balls. But at Chicago's DePaul University, good
- manners are essential weapons in the arsenal of the young job
- hunter. For four years now, undergraduate training has included a
- formal "etiquette dinner," where $25 buys graduating seniors a
- multicourse meal at a ferociously fancy hotel--and a crash
- course in social grace from experts in the art of power
- schmoozing.
- </p>
- <p> Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like `The
- food looks pathetic,'" urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a
- third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group
- instruction in the body language of handshaking and other
- niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive:
- "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins,
- excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we
- break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and
- placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the
- backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which
- side of the plate they can find the knife.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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