Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-07
LOCATIONS OF YALE MEN
Ratios of Change Tn the Leading
 Professions.
THE DRIFT INTO BUSINESS LIFE

Rapid Increase In the Number of
 Graduates Who Enter Commercial
 Careers and the Decrease of the
 Ministry and Agricultural FOlIovv-
 CTS Striking Features.
 Secretary Stokes of the Yale corpo- ration recently published an elaborate set of tables showing occupations of living Yale graduates, says a New Ha- ven special dispatch to the New York Post These, combined with statistics compiled several years ago by Profess or J. c. Schwab, show some interest ing changes and other features.
 During the first century and a half of the college a large proportion of graduates went into the learned profes- sions, especially the ministry Thus, from 1701 to 1744 out of 4S3 graduates there were 226 clergymen, 33 lawyers, 30 physicians; from 1744 to 1762 out of 505 graduates there were 1S6 clergy men, 56 lawyers and GA physicians; from 1763 to 1777 out of ASA graduates there were 154 clergymen, g lawyers and 59 physicians. Fourteen classes in thesfirst half of the nineteenth century, ending with the year 1S45, show, aver aging the percentages, about 81 per cent in the ministry, 34 per cent in the law and about 12 per cent in medicine, the rapid growth of the law as com pared with the ministry being note worthy. During the last sixty years these proportions have so changed that now out of 7,025 living graduates of the academic department only 40S or about 7 per cent, are in the ministry, while 2,189, or about 30 per cent, are in the law and 557, or about per cent, are physicians.
 Taking the last ten years. during which the number of living graduates in each class is about equal, the num- Der of teachers rose from 28 to 46, finance from 35 to 45, manufacturing from IS to 35, and in mercantile life from 10 to 30. Out of 12,665 living graduates of the whole university there are in arts and music 156; agriculture 254; education, 1,4So; engineering, S40; finance, 1,13S; government service, 200; law, 3,156; journalism and letters, 030: manufacturing, 1,1T1: medicine, 1,1S1; mercantile callings, 937; the ministry, 1,141, and transportation, 101, these representing the vacations of more than 96 per. cent of living Yale grad uates.
 The striking features of the figures for the last few decades are the great and rapid increase in the number of graduates who go into business and become linen of affairs and the de crease of the ministry and of agri- culture. Education. law, medicine and public service latterly about hold their own.
 The departmental returns show that out of S49 graduates of the theological school POS, or almost one-fourth, have abandoned the ministry for other call 1ngs, chiefly teaching, which took 121. Out of 1,423 living graduates in law 32T have gone into other vacations, chiefly finance, manufacturing and mercantile life. Out of 535 living grad uates in medicine only 54 have aban- doned 1t. Of 2,S23 living graduates of the scientific school about one quarter (710) have become engineers, while 195 have become teachers, 315 have gone into finance, 5O0 into manufacturing, 219 into medicine and 300 into mercan- tile ltfe Out of 363 living graduates of the graduate school receiving de grees 259 have become teachers.
 The local drift as to occupations is somewhat strikingly denoted by re- turns which show that during the three years - 19O1-O4 - the north Atlantic states gained from S,o47 to S,51o grad uRtes, the south Atlantic states from 451 to 544, the middle and northwest from 2,094 to 2,251, the southwest from 264 to 315, and the Pacific states from 547 to $50. In proportion to the whole number of graduates in locality the changes are thus very evenly distribut- ed. There are 506 graduates whose vacations cannot be classified.