The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-02
Every Member of 'O5
Class Employed.
A NOTABLE CHANGE
Olce, Upon His Graduation He Spent
a Few Years Enjoying Life, But
Now He Commences Work Al
most On the Day He Leaves
College.

What a change has taken place il
the employment of college graduates
A few years ago, when a young man
was graduated from college, he Wa!
expected, as matter of course, to en-
Joy himself a year or two before set
Ting down to work. Nowadays ne
goes to work almost the day alter
graduation, having made contract
frequently, six months before.
A month ago forty yourg men We're
graduated from the A. and Nj. COL
lege. Nearly all of them had maze
arrangements to begin work imme-
diately on graduation; and a 1ouftn
of them had actually gone to work d
fortnight before the commencement
exercises.
II is a matter of common remark
how successful the A. and Nj. grad
yates are in life. The reason OF TINS
success is not merely that they are
we'll educated but that they are Will
ing TO work and to take hold any
where, starting at the bottom, if need
be. Although carrying with them
their college diplomas, they go 10
work by the side of men with little or
no education: men who have never
been inside of a college. Beginning
thus, at the bottom, with this spirit
they go steadily upward, being rapid
* promoted to positions OF response
1ility, commanding large salaries.
w An inquiry at the A. and Nj. college
#shows that the forty men, who re-
y Gently graduated there. are engaged as
follows: Eleven in various kinds OF
civil engineering, laying out railroads
surveying land, ETC., six are IN the
shops of the General Electric or the
mol iQC
serving as apprentices in practlcal
electrical engineering: three are work
ing in machine shops, serving mechan:-
cal engineering apprenticeshlps; SIX
are superintendents of farms; one is
i'm the cattle business; one is selllng
agricultural machinery and imple-
ments; one is superintendent or q
bottling factory; one is working III an
architects office; one is working III d
cotton seed oil mill; one is superln-
tendent in a basket and box factory;
one has worked his way to Europe on
a cattle ship where he is now travel
ing for study and pleasure; three are
working in cotton and WOODEN mills,
one is a teacher in biology; one is d
teacher in mathematics; one IS travel
ing for health and study i'll the Uni
ted States; one is in the employment
of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway
The average college gra duate thinks
that the world is waiting for HIM
with a big comfortable job, requiring
little work and giving large pay. he
holds back from employment demand
ing hard work and frequently fails
to make a beginning by reason of his
unwillingness to start in an humble
position at low wages. Not SO with
the A. and M. graduates. They go
to work at anything, sometimes even
for less wages than is required to SUI =
port them. They know that the III
ture is all right with them. When an
opportunity comes they seize 1t ana
use it, The result is that not one OF
the graduates of this college, 50 Tar
as is known, is unemployed.
This remarkable record shows that
stllt. training given tx the A. ma M.
College not only fits young men for
the actual struggle of life by thor
oughly practical education, but also
bv giving them the right ideals OF
work 1t would be interesting indeed
TO see twenty years hence what these
forty young men are doing. They are
now beginning at the bottom in q
dozen different lines of business, and
no doubt in twenty years many oil
them will be at the top.