The Bozeman courier., 1921-11-23
.VASSAR NOW FITS
GRADUATES TO
POSITIONS
Occupation Bureau, Latest Aid
to Girls in Finding Vocation,
Cuts Out Loss Resulting
from Drifting into a Job.

Just drifting into a job is exceed
ingly unsatisfactory. Employees and
! employers have recognized that fact
for a long time. How the colleges
have turned their attention to it.
Every year the number of college girls
! who enter the business, teaching, and
professional world has increased-and
rthis without cutting down the number!
of college graduates who marry after
few years. Consequently, Vassarl
College, the pioneer of all the big wo-
mems colleges of the country. has
imade itself the pioneer in the field Of
directing the future occupations Of las
students.
Vassar not only runs a busy Occu-
patton Bureau, but has a Vocation
Committee made up of one teacher
from each department. This commit
ttee finishes much of the Occupation
Bureaus work before it has even be-
gun, by adjusting the academic ma
ichinery so that it turns out round
lpegs instead of the square ones that
lcannot be fitted into the round holes
of an average job.
Fitting Girl for Job
! If a girl plans to enter social work.
become a librarian, a chemist, or q
teacher. she may study the report of
this committee, or consult any mem
ber of it. The advice she gets repre-
tsents the combined judgment of mem
ibars from every branch of the college,
Preached after consultation with lead
ers in various vocational fields. These
advisers know what subjects will be
of greatest benefit to a girl and how
'her specializing in her own choice Of
work may be turned to advantage.
The girls themselves. have organ
ized what what they call the V. G.
". c., which is their annual vocational
conference. They arrange a program
: hat includes wide variety of occu-
oations, and invite speakers, who are
also question -answerers. A distin-
suished coterie of such advisers has
t0een secured for these meetings -
merchants, bankers, directors of So
.ial work, newspaper and magazine
editors, physicians. lawyers, and
psychologists.
There is a constant demand for the
iVassar graduates. especially as teach
rsrs. OF the annual 400 or more appli-
cations from boards and employers,
iitbOut 300 are for teachers. Not all re-
Iuests are for recent graduates. Every
vear institutions and organizations
write in to have the college recon-
rend or secure for them some one
from the older alumnae to serve as
dean, superintendent of schools or ex-
ecutive in various kinds of work. Miss
Mary Yost was the latest one of the
( graduates to accept the position oi
lean Of women In q university, havs
ing taken that position at Leland
Stanford this fail
To Teach Royalty
One interesting letter received this
tmonth by President MacCracken ol
yassar was from the reigning queer
of state in the HimaIayas, asking
aim TO send young woman to In.
struct her grand daughters. Infinite
faith IN Vassarss versatility was evil
dent in her modest gpecincations-ths
tutor must be skilfuI needle-workar
q singer and pianist Of ability. q per.
sfoct conversationalisl In French and
IN expert In hygiene
While such demands SIS that do gG
- bit beyond the usual. there ia q gen.
eral thoroughnesa In the description o.
kfe sort Of person wanted for most pc.
ssirions seeking the holder Of them
The director OF the Occupation Bu.
reau Is now completing register q
s@A alumnae. whfcM win amana@ her Il
sasuggest able women 9ow she mxceAIau
positions always ou@nsuN