New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-24
JOB A DAY GOES
TO COLLEGE GIRLS
intercollegiate Occupation
Bureau Makes a Brave
Showing.
GRADUATES SUCCEED
IN MANY VOCATlONS
Effort Under Way to Plan Future
for Students in Worlds
Work.

ness day Of its existence is the record
shown b. the first report OF the Inter-
collegiate Bureau Of Occupations.
The bureau. which was organized by
New York City alumnje OF womens col
leges TO supply work 10 college graduates
has jus: completed the first nineteen
months Of its existence. In that time II
has filed 422 out of a total OF $50 JOBS
offered by employers.
More than sixty different types Of work
have been registered IN at least twenty
three distinct fields Of employment The
positions filed were IN social and religious
organizations, schools and colleges, clubs
and associations, private households
hotels and restaurants. hospitals. civic
organizations publicly supported, on
farms. in scientific research laboratories,
libraries. Photographic establishments. in
the offices Of lawyers. physicians. archi-
tects. engineers. landscape gardeners,
real estate dealers, accountants and in
surance agents. in manufacturing estab-
lshments. banks, publishing houses and
public service corporations.
The work to be done in these various
places Of employment included that of
Stenographcrs or secretaries. bookkeepers
and office assistants. club leaders, teach
ers I'm new or unusual lines, house-moth-
ers. Investigators. editors and editorial
assistants, executive managers. statist-
clans, organizer. lecturers and workers
in many other occupations.
College Women in Demand.
'"The fact that so much should be ex-
pected OF us" said Miss Frances Cum
mings. manager Of the bureau, sis an
interesting commentary on the question
often asked I'm skeptical tones by the crit
ics of college education: DO employers
want college women That bureau dis
tlnctly tagged intercollegiate has already
registered nearly a thousand calls for
them may point toward an answer. We
come to YOU because you have the type
of women We want Again and again
those words have reached US over the
telephone wire.
ION the othc- hand. type can never be
balanced against efficiency and not in
frequently we have placed a nom college
woman in position for which a college
woman would have been preferred, be-
work in the beginning was not limited 10
college women. Women who had never
been to college were registered II thor
oUghly qualified for work of professional
rank
The report states that of the appli-
cants placed in salaried positions 6S1 per
cent received $50 or more per month: a
very few more than $50. In the four
largest ocupstional groups-stenographe
and secretaries, clerks. visitors and set
tlement workers-several striking facts
appear
The salaries Of stenographers and secre-
taries ranged from less than $50 to 500
per month. More than half received be-
tween $50 and $50, but about ten per cent
received between 500 and 500. None OF
the clerks and office assistants. on the
other hand, received $50 per month and
very few as much as $40 The value OF
stenography and typewriting in advancing
young women to higher salaries is clearly
indicated
Combining the two following groups-
visitors and settlement workers-,t &c
fond that salaries again ranged from
under $50 TO nearly s15c. but Just one-baIf
OF the positions offered under $50 The
largest proportion of part-time positions
was registered from settlements.
Many Colleges Visited.
In response 10 the growing demand for
definite information on the part of col
lese undergraduates who wish to pan
their futures wisely. the manager has
visited most Of the large Eastern colleges
for women and a few in the West, by
special invitation. About eighteen hun
dred students have listened TO accounts
~ the bureaus achievements and its baf-
fling problems. They have been told
which fields of work seem overcrowded
and which are In need OF qualified col
lege women.
Two hundred and thirty-six students ar
ranged for personal interviews with the
manager to discuss in detail their future
plans. Most of these girls were seniors.
suddenly awakened 10 the fact that inn
portant decisions must soon be made.
Here and there sophomores and junior,
came. usually girls who felt called 10 a
special form of work. and therefore
wished To ask advice az 10 the choice Of
college courses.
"One meets with all shades OF wisdom
and grasp OF the practical problems in
volved in choosing courses" said Miss
Cummings. but. fortunately. not many
are as ill-advised as one girl who in
tended TO become a trained nurse and had
specialized in philosophy Greek and Lat
in"
The bureau is managed by the New
York alumne organizations OF the follow
ing colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr. Cor
nell, Mount Holyoke Radcliffe Smith,
Nassar. Wellesley and Wells.
Miss Mary Van Kleeck is president;
Mrs Wendell r. Bush. vice-president
Mrs Lewis Frederick Pease, secretary
Miss Antoinette Putnam Cramer. treas
urer. and Miss Frances Cummings. man
ager
on the advisory board are Miss Virginia
&. Gildersleeve dean of Barnard; Miss NJ.
Carey Thomas. president. of Bryn Ma"r;
Mrs Gertrude S. Martin, adviser OF wom-
en- Cornell: Miss Mary Emma Woolley,
president OF Mount Holyoke; DR.. Marion
lie Roy Burton. president OF Smith; Or.
James Monroe Taylor. president of Vas
sar. and Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, presi-
dent OF Wellesley.