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MR. H. A. ROBERTS, secretary for thirty years of the Appointments Board of the University of Cambridge, died at Cambridge on December 18 at the age of sixty-eight years. After ten years as senior mathematical master at Bath College he returned to Cambridge as a coach in mathematics in 1898. But his life's real work began when he was appointed in 1902 to be secretary of the University Appointments Board. He waskeen to develop a new line of openings for university graduates in business and administrative posts, in addition to the more obviously natural academic, professional and technical positions which most men then sought after graduation. By great care in the selection of the men whom he recommended to the firms which applied to the Board, he not only succeeded in overcoming a prejudice against university men in business but he also created a new demand for such men on the part of large industrial undertakings.
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Mr. H. A. Roberts. Nature 131, 49 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131049a0
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