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The New York herald., 1921-05-29

specialize ii they not to 20 under. and
the majority of them hold some specially in
mind as a major interest, Notwithstanding
president or dean know nothing of it, Once
outside the college, with the diploma nicely
framed, a good many of the graduates have
Z plan mapped out that they mean to use
in life And those who haven't such plan
cannot say that they haven't been warned.
IN order to get at these plans THE New
York HERALD sent round robin to the prn-
cipal colleges and universities requesting
figures that should indicate what vocations
the graduating classes of 1921 had chosen
either TO enter upon or to study in prepara-
ton for after finishing their college course
and If there We're figures showing the same
thing in the past this newspaper asked 10
see them
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
New Wonders of Movies
Only Thirty Years Away

BY 1850, or sooner, he predicted scientists
will have worked out moving picture cam
era which will record in full color develop
the picture instantaneously and telegraph Il
exactly as recorded to filing chamber. auto
matically to be filed. with a mechanism for
locating and exhibiting any film instantly,
camera with self-sensltizing plates. on
which not separate pictures but a con
tinuously changing picture will be formed
and erased after being telegraphed to the
storage room.
For fear such a camera may he declared
impossible said Hubbard, II hasten to re-
mind you that Mother Nature anticipated my
specifications by some million years when
she gave us our two eyes. The result is
that each of us has such pair of cameras
self directing. self-focussing and self-clean-
ing the exposed surfaces being ceansed
twenty times every minute. These won
derful eye cameras are not made with hands,
but they have automatic aperture adjust
ment, sensitize and develop their own plates
instantly. taking colored pictures in fun mo-
ton. stereoscopic pictures, teegraphing them
exactly as recorded to the optic lobes of the
brain, subject to instan. recall in our little
theatres OF the mind
Now, here We have . real motion picture
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
THE 1921 COLLEGE GRADUATE PLANS HIS LIFE

yates in all went into business. To-day
business is the prevailing choice. and Am
herst's success in business is emphasized by
the recent election of Charles T.. Mitchell,
'99, to the presidency of the National City
Bank; such men as Dwight w. Morrow, '95,
of ]. r. Morgan & Co.; Mortimer l.. Schiff.
SO, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Charles ID. Norton
'93. president of the First Security Com
pany; William II. Moore, II, of the First
National Bank and Rock Island Properties
the Pratt brothers of Standard Oil; Arthur
Crl tiss James of Phelps, Dodge & Co, and
forth"
Vocational choices of seniors of Amherst
College are given as follows:
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Business OverShadows All Other
rCaIings Among Dartmouth Men

Richard Wellington Husband. associate
dean of Dartmouth College writes this let
ter:
The following statement of choice of oc-
cupaton by the members of the present
senior class in Dartmouth College is as
nearly accurate as we can make it, / re-
gret that we have not adequate records OF
the classes recently graduated that would
allow us to make a similar statement re-
sarding them"
Glass of 1921. Dartmouth College. choice
of occupations:
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up post graduate study-either in profess
sional schools or in schools giving advanced
courses leading to higher degrees, M. A,
Phi. ID.
The other members of the class are in a
quandary as to their future activities-that
is, some of them are; some expect to go into
business-for themselves-with parents or
relatives. A number of others will take up
teaching. One student has decided to travel
for number of years instead of taking
course in higher education. And the rest of
the class are looking for jobs and will after
graduation seek employment.
Summarized percentage basis of 1907;
Advance study mot professionally ....... 10
Professional schools-Law. medical, busi-
ness, pedagogy, ministry, journalism. 80
Business world definite positions) ......, 20
Business world (positons to be obtained). 80
Observation-Disclosures travel &c....... 10
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

SHOWS but small number, eight who say
they mean to study medicine. Princeton has
twelve who have elected this future for
themselves.
Banking and manufacturing real estate
and other branches OF business appear with
a handful of graduates in Columbia and
Princeton. Generally these are the students
who intend to follow the line of their fathers
and doubtless will go right into the paternal
business house.
Nobody in Columbia announces his inten-
tion to be a farmer, but there are twelve of
this ilk who will get their sheepskins this
spring at Princeton. Cornell of course leads
In this line and most students who have
early felt the call of agriculture choose this
college to matriculate in. There are a round
100 embryo farmers in the Cornell gradual
ing class.
In the Ithaca college mechanics ranks
highest In popularity almost half of the
graduates this year say that Is their chosen
vocation. This comprehends mechanical
civil and electrical engineering. Only six
show in Columbias forecast and thirty-two
in Prnceton's
In arts and sciences 100 students of Cor
nell Will make themselves masters by pos,
graduate study and almost as many have
50 elected at Princeton. These men put off
an election of a vocation for at least
couple of years and probably longer They
prefer to remain students that much longer.
Ten members of the graduating class OF
New York University will indulge in post
graduate study, fifty men are going straight
into business, and law. pedagogy. medicine
and the ministry will divide thirty grad
yates among them 1t is curious in the
light OF history to count but a sdant 200
from the half dozen best known colleges of
the East that wish to be lawyers. As many
as that used to come from the colleges Of
New York alone every season and frequently
the number was swelled by private law
schools up into the thousands.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Cinema Science Entering Magical Era
ubbard Asounds Movie Engineers Themselves With Pedct
OF oupercameras and New Sound and Color MarNels

programme for 1850. Nature set lis a
splendid goal and blazed the way to that
goal when she gave us our two eyes Dare
we predict or plan that the motion picture
engineer shall perfect such motion picture
camera according to Mother Natures speci-
hcations? Why should we not?"
Everything. DR.. Hubbard said will be au-
tomato. Coin operating vending machines
VIII dispense disks which in turn will operate
easy working turnstiles according to seat lo-
catoh. eliminating both the box office and
the ticket taker," he continued. "a tiny lamp
would light, showing for each row that seats
were available, the color indicating the
number vacant, thus largely replacing the
usher.
The size of the theatre. he believes. will
range from the little theatre TO the huge
theatre Tor master productions, many times
the capacity of present day houses The
little theatres, with lower magnifcations.
will be used for highly specialized films re-
quiring perfect definition. Little theatres
VIII also be suitable for innovations which
must meet the challenge of popular taste
before being assmilated into appreciated art
At the other extreme viii be vast circular
theatres. with concentric circles of seats fac
ing the centre, where each sector will be
provided with it's own screen and protector.
all operating with one film.
II look To see a phenomenal rise i'm the
art Of incidental sounds" he said. among
these | include music and the human voice,
and those characteristic noises such as the
clatter Of hoofs, the chug of the motor
patter of rain, signing of the wind, cracking
of the fire and the splash and roar OF the
sea. Such sounds. IL perfectly rendered add
intensity to the realism of tho Aim, but their
production must be made automatic and
independent of the direct use of a hundred
separate noise makers 1t is not so much
the volume as the euunciation and accuracy
of the imitation that win count
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
New York University Yields
Interesting Data on Vocstions

The class of 1921 at New York University
Is made up of students in the various schools
Oh the university-such as College of Arts
and Pure Science, College of Engineering
Law School, Medical School. School of Com
merce, Accounts and Finance, and so on.
It is reasonable 10 assume that the stu
dents in the professional schools Of the uni
versity will take up their professions and
become lawyers doctors, engineers and the
like. Students in the business schools will
naturally enter into the business world after
graduation, &C.
In the case of the College of Arts and Pure
Science, however, the outlook is interesting.
Talks with members of the class of 1921
yielded the following data:
About half of the class intends to take
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

A MOTHER June Is on the way and
~ after it arrives and wakes strong
and hot horde of young men grad
uating from the colleges and universities
viii emerge probably with hoot and a yell,
Tor the sheepskin is too new yet to confer
dignity. in order 10 tell the world that they
are out. After the yell dies down, what?
It's the old bothersome question. It recurs
every year Every year It has to be an
swered. but there is 10 general answer pos
sible. Thousands of young men. eager
enthusiastic, Indifferent, careless. al sorts
are TO DC dumped on the world viii the
world move aside to make room for them?
Yes. Just as a crowd in 4 subway car does.
Hear the old tired complaint. Every pro-
tcssion Is crowded 10 the hmt--aw medi-
zinc. pedagogy. ministry literature each of
them includes vast number Of practitioners
pr professors who are able to make only
bare living. IN science il is the same story;
there are engineers Of every variety apply
lng for every job in the ratio Of Il hundred
to the job, and chemists geologists CONNER
81 art, advertising. all are fun 70 running
over Yes. q general view Of possible open
rigs i discouraging
Happily, youth pooh poohs these pess-
mistc estimates and discounts them There
must be room. there shall be room for one
more says the individual graduate. The
world i his oyster and be means to open
il with or without knife Good appetite
10 him and good luck
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Amherst Sees Amazing Growth
In the Popularity of Business

This letter and vocational list come from
Frederick S. Ailis secretary of the Alumni
Council of Amherst College:
Your recent letter has been handed In me
for reply. i have had a few figures taken
from the issues of the undergraduate pub
hcation showing the vocational choices of
seniors in the years indicated both before
and since the war. am not sure how accu-
rate they are, but they probably show
general tendency.
In connection with Amherst's centennial
celebration in June we might give you some
interesting material on the change in the
occupation Of the college graduate during
the last century. During the first fifty years
In Amhersts history, for example I think
not more than two or three hundred o,.ad
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Far Wider Field for College Men
Than Existed Twenty Years "A

After ALL things are not So bad as they
used 70 be twenty years ago. Then college
graduates bad narrower choice; II was
between business and ono Of the so-called
learned professions Vocational education
has revealed some other vistas. Why not
elect to BE- scientific farmer? why not
choose public accountancy? Not modern
university but j. equipped nowadays with
schools that arc supposed To At students for
whatever vocation attracts them even before
they have taken their y a. or II s.
And tho attitude Of college men II much
ess uaif than II was twenty years ago. Few
Of them but realize that they viii have 10
The New York herald., 1921-05-29


ushers and orchestras individual telephones
on every seat reproducing with minute ex-
actness the speeches of the actors on the
screen, and supercameras. comprising with
IN the scope of an ordinary pocket kodak
an the functions of the human eye and
many OF those of the human brain-these
are only few of the developments which
may De expected in the moving picture in
uustry OF the future, according to DIR. Henry
IL. Hubbard. assistant director of the United
states Bureau of Standards
speaking before the Society of Motion Pic
ture Engineers here. Hubbard predicted 4
brilliant future for the science of the movies
fairly astounding his auditors with some of
ms suggestions as to probable lines of de-
velopment Almost every home eventually
VIII be equipped with at least one moving
picture protector. he predicted; every public
library will have dozens of individual ma
chimes for their readers, with a great num-
Der of special films dealing with every
variety of subject and many persons viii
carry small pocket machines about with
them, as pencils and fountain pens are now
carried
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Law Ranks as First Choice
Among Columbia College Seniors

Columbia College class of 1921: Nineteen
students selected law as their probable occu-
patlon, II business, medicine, engineer
ing, journalism / education, . banking
l each agriculture, manufacturing real es-
tate, geology. public accounting. Twelve
students We're undecided as to what they
wished to do.
From Cornell University comes the follow
ing:
There is no record available of the voca-
tons the graduating class will pursue. nor is
there any record of who is sure to graduate
Roughly speaking Cornell will grant about
700 degrees, more than half of them to stu
0trts in the mechanical, electrical and civil
engineering courses Upward of 100 will
finish in the college of agriculture some 30
the law school and about % in chemistry
The rest are students in the college of arts
and sciences, some of whom will 20 into
business, others prepare for the professions"
TWO hundred and twenty members, or
about one-third of the graduating class at
Syracuse University. have applied for teach
ing positions next year with the university
employment bureau.
In addition, between 100 and 200 more
students from the various colleges have OBJ
tanned teaching positions themselves and did
not register at the agency making a total
of about $50 who will take up teaching as a
profession.
Mechanical and electrical engineering is
next popular, with forty-fve taking UP that
work. Other professions are: Doctors "a
lawyers, 3s foresters "a: agricultursts
"a newspaper work, Z; college instructors
l. and housewives. 5.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
How One May Learn
Music and Dancing by Movies

The Psychologist composer and physicist
will join In devising new kinds of incidental
music and sounds for each play, Hubbard
predicts so that with every action the Of
fective emotional background will be sup
piled. The orchestra will not be present.
The artists will execute the incidental music
once for all and so perfectly that it will
compare with the film. and will be pro-
duced on the same basis OF automaticity
and synchronism by perfected mechanical
means.
II look to see perfect and automatic
rendering Of the human voice audible to
every observer of the picture" he continued.
Speaking parts will be added to the silent
drama, which to-day is open TO the crit-
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
How the Pupils May Follow
Master Pianist's Phantom Hands

Apply the motion picture to piano self
instruction. Project above and along the key
board from one side of the piano a motion
picture of the master pianists hands, show
ing his fingers executing, say, the chromatic
scale. plain glass plate, set at forty-f1ve
degrees, forms camera lucida which re
fleets the picture 10 the pupils eyes. lie
can thus follow the masters hands and
every setting and stroke Of each finger and
every turn in of the thumb. The silent
phantom OF the masters hands. the i'm
mortalized skill would be better than the
presence OF the master himself and far less
disconcerting for with Joined ends the film
could patiently repeat the motion as often
as needed and at any speed steadily faster
skill developed. Likewise every difficult
bit Of technique could be taught by mas
ters whose movements would be recorded
as we now record their music
81 think we all foresee the trend of pro-
jector design--we shall soon have the in
dividual protector by which any one may
observe any film at his own desk or library
table. An individual protector may use 4
thinner film with smaller pictures SO that
one may use the protector as he uses a book
o. pencil, slip 1t into his pocket carry II
with him for use anywhere. Our home
libraries will be equipped to exhibit pictures
as easily as we play victrola Such de-
vices are already available, and will evolve
into the animated newspaper of tomorrow
Public libraries, of course. will have indi
vidual screens and projectors for each read
e and great collections Of highly specialized
films on every conceivable topic"
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

EDISONS
places in his failure percentage
candidates
interesting the following article In gathering
NEW YORK HERALD offers Illuminating
education best perhaps
S
Within the
degrees the they try
college
through the
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

cism that the characters are seen speak
ing but cannot be heard.
May point out. purely as examples OF
countless applications. one or two easy next
steps In motion pictures. a composite of
instructor. college and textbook? Take two
very popular and common arts, dancing and
the piano. Project moving footprints from
below on a ground glass floor showing the
steps of given dance. The pupil follows
the steps with his feet, regulating the move
ment from slow to normal as skill develops
The same film which projects the footprints
may also give lfesize picture of a skilled
dancer executing the same step i'm exact
time with the moving footprints. or slightly
IN advance of them, the picture turning SO
as to follow the turns of the dancer and
remain in view From time to time helpful
hints in print could be included as part
of the film projection. giving the perfect
evolution by the phantom footsteps taught
by diagram, picture, instruction and music
all in perfect synchronism. and all selected
as the most skilled rendering available.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Showing the Vocational Trend
OF Graduates From Yale

From Yale comes the following figures
arranged IN an easily understood table:
Summary Of vocations chosen by class of
1921, Yale College, and the classes that were
graduated in the five preceding years:
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

The thirty-two prospective engineers are
classified as follows: Chemical Z: civil
electrical, A; hydro-electrcal, l. mining. 4.
unspecifed, 10"
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

business careers is varied in the extreme
ranging from the task of hatmaker to a
position in the country's greatest steel COM
pany.
THE complete statistics follow:
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Copyright, 1921. By THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. C., Nav 28

1NlE theatres ten or twelve times
as large as those of the present
day: automatic ticket venders
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-04
PESSIMIST WORSE THAN
A HUN, DECLARES BISHOP

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. ga
pessimist is worse than Hun"
Bishop James Atkins, of Nashville,
told members of the educational
commission of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, South, attending a
conference here to map out plans
for a drive for s33,O0O,OOO to pro-
mote educational work.
eff you find a pessimist any
where outside this hall kill him for
me-" said the bishop. Hard times is
the cry of the coward" he declared
The conference, which is attended
by representatives of the thirty-sev.
en- church conferences, began yes.
terday and will continue through to-
day. A meeting of the college of
bishops will be held tomorrow. In
addition to raising the proposed
$39,OOO,O0O fund it is planned tc
make available $1,000,00O to aid
worthy students.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-04
FORMER GOVERNOR
MANNING SPEAKS ON
EXPORT CORPORATION

Columbia, Feb. 3.-Former Gov.
Richard l. Manning, president Of the
American Products Export and I'M
port corporation, returned to Colum-
bia yesterday from Lumberton and
Red prings, N. c., where he spoke
Monday at Acreage Reduction"
meetings. At both meetings he pre-
sented the plans and purposes of the
export corporation and reports that
the people were genuinely interested
in the corporation and enthusiastic
over its prospects.
At Lumberton the meeting was
held in the court house, which Gov
ernor Manning says was filled to
overfowing, people lining the aisles
and sitting in the windows. AT Red
Springs the theater was filled. The
people of both places. Governor Man.
ming said, evidenced great earnest
ness in their desire to arrive at a
proper solution of the problem con-
fronting them. They appreciate the
necessity of a reduction of their
acreage and appreciate the value of
the export corporation for their cot
ton. The meetings were held under the
auspices of the Robson County
branch of the American Cotton AS
sociation.
A statement given out by the Am
erican Cotton association yesterday
says that "a careful investigation
throughout the cotton belt, just COM
pleted by the association, indicates
quite clearly that the 1921 reduction
in cotton acreage will approximate
so per cent of the acreage planted
in 1921. The cause for principal rea-
sons. First, the farmers are holding
the bulk of the 1920 crop beeause
present prices represent hardly more
than one-third of the cost of produc-
ton. Second, banks and supply mer-
chants are unable to finance the
planting of normal acreage in cot
ton in 1921 while carrying unpaid
obligations of 1920.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-04
EXPORTS TAX MAY BE
ALTERED BY ALLIES

London, Feb. 3.-The conference
called by the supreme council tS be
held in London February %, to which
the Germans will be invited, will not
be for the purpose of pronouncing an
irrevocable sentence regarding rep
arations from which the Germans will
not be able to appeal, it was authori-
tatively stated here today. The con-
ference, rather, will be designed to
produce a declaration of the princi-
Piles of Germany's indebtedness.
1t is pointed out in official circles
that the works of the Paris confer,
ence on reparations was that of max,
ing a solemn declaration of Ger
many's Indebtedness. That declara'
tion it is asserted, will in the main be
closely adhered to at the London
conference, but the allies and Ger,
many can adjust the method and
time of the payments.
1t is even probable, it is stated that
the IL per cent tax on Germany's ex,
Yort provided for in the Paris terms
may be altered by the confereees al.
tho the principle of the right to i'm,
pose such tax will be retained. The
export tax measure, it is asserted
here, was strictly a French proposal
advanced for the purpose of guaran.
:2cing the fullest protection from
future German aggression.