The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-06-12

medicine, ministry, teaching or sclence)
But of the fathers, only S75 per cent
belonged to the learned professions OF
had enjoyed a collegiate education.
large majority, nearly two-thirds Of col
leSiate graduates of recent times, al
Yale college at least, are sons of fathers
who have enjoyed neither an academic
nor professional education. The col
lege men of to-day are selected from a
much broader area, geographically and
professionally, than were those of ear
lier times. The hereditary aristocracy
of college graduates is thing of the
past.
AS to the profession of teaching and
the pursuit of science, the fraction has
steadily risen till it reaches 1875 per
cent. among the graduates of the above
ten years; while of the fathers only 29
per cent were teachers or scientific men.
We must defer the examination of the
question whether this result must be as
| cribed to the growing attractiveness Of
the teachers profession lin the case of
the sons); or to the unremunerativene
of the profession and inability Con the
part of the fathefs) to send sons to col
lege.
Fathers occupations, by sections and
in percentages:
New England-Law, 146; ministry,
1871; medicine, SIS; teaching and science,
3.3; learned professions (col. 1-D, and
| college graduates, 400; business, AIS;
| farm and plantation, Ill.
| Middle Atlantic--Haw, 1911; ministry
! TO- medicine, &C: teaching and science,
| q.
graduates, 42.7; business, $50; farm and
plantation, SO.
North Center-Law, 26.0; ministry,
81; medicine, SO; teaching and science,
At; learned professions and college
graduates, $50; business, 52.7; farm and
plantation, 81.
South Atlantic-Law, 26.7; ministry,
81; medicine, 1873; teaching and sci
ence, -; learned professions and college
graduates, 5S.s; business, 1851; farm and
plantation. CT.
South Center-Law 46.2; ministry, -;
medicine 38; teaching and science, -;
learned professions and college gradu-
ates, 53.S; business, 30S; farm and plan
tation, lis.
Mountains-Law, 500; ministry, =;
medicine, -; teaching and science, -;
learned professions and college gradu
ates, 500; business $50; farm and plan
tation, -.
Pacific-Law, -; ministry, - medi-
cine, $50: teaching and science, -;
learned professions and college gradu-
ates, $685. business, 500; farm and plan
tation, $50.
Foreign-Law, so; ministry, $50;
n. Nd
learned professions and college gradu-
ates, 3s.1; business, $50; farm and plan
tation,
The above table classifies the fathers
by geographical sections and by occupa-
lions. The minor occupations included
in the first table are here omitted. In
the divisions Ct the country, the middle
Atlantic states include New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware; the
south Atlantic states, those from Mary
land and West Virginia to Florida inclu-
sive; the south central states include
Kentucky, Tennessee Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indian terri
tory, Oklahoma and Texas; the north
central states, those north Of the last d.
vision; the mountain states and terrific
ries, the remaining ones except the tier
of Pacific states. The figures for the
mountain and Pacific states in the
above table must be neglected, as they
are based on too few data,
As would be expected, farmers and
planters are more numerously represent
ed among the fathers of the southern
and New England students than among
those of the middle Atlantic and north
central students. This preponderance of
farmers in New England must of course
be due to the educational facilities and
traditions of that section; that of plant
ers in the south must be due to the fact
that they still constitute, not as of old,
the bulk, but at least considerable part
of the well-to-do class.
1t u.s. moreover, noticeable that the
learned professions and college gradu-
ates are most strongly represented
among the fathers of southern students,
while in the north central section the |
percentage falls to 4S per cent, in the |
middle states. to 42.7 per cent; and in i
New England, to 40 per cent Cores
business men are least nu
among the fathers Of southern |
students and most numerous among |
those of north central and middle states
students Tt is among the latter that |
lawyers also predominant. A compari-
son of the type Of fathers in New Eng
land and in the north central states that
have sent their sons to college is inter-
asting. In New England roughly half |
the fathers were business men; of the
rest the law the ministry and the farm
ire about equally represented, while
medicine and teaching occupy a less
prominent place. In the north central
states trifle more than half the fathers
we're business men; one-fifth We're law
yers; the ministry sinks to half the i'm
portance it had in New England; farm
ng to one-third the Importance: while
and teaching occupy about the
anne position that they do in New Eng
and.
Another subject upon which the sta
.istics of Yale college graduates throw
much light is the interstate movement
If population. The following. figures
give the place of birth and the place Of
residence of approximately
I'll the graduates of the years 1SS3-1S92:
Birthplace-New England, SOY; middle
Atlantic, 553; north center, 267; south
Atlantic, 20; south center, AZ; mountains,
!; Pacific, IA; foreign, 81; total, 1,455.
Residence-New England, 1884, middle