The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Business Life Appeals to
College Graduates of 1922

Japan. fOT next year .. Is. Nichols
of Elkhart, Ind, will be Amherst's
representative. The fact that twenty
five men are entering professions. as
contrasted with fourteen last year, is
worthy of note in comparison of the
two years.
In the Isl students who expect to
receive degrees from Northwestern
University this month a canvass of
the graduating class reveals the popu-
lar trend of college education is to-
ward specializing.
Following is the result of straw
ballot: Doctors. 90; dentists. 65; law
yers, so; specialized business, 100:
miscellaneous business, \24O; engineers.
q; oratorical and lecture, SO: music,
Al; ministers, social workers, 35 .
teachers, 25; undecided As.
Very few OF the students of law.
medicine, dentistry. music and other
specialized courses strive for degrees
in their respective lines meyely for ac-
complishment, declare university au-
thorities. Wits very few exceptions
the professional and specialized stu
dents follow through making the
broad knowledge for arts sake" is
now the exception and not the rule. as
in the days of yore.
In the school of liberal arts the ma
5ority of undecided students are CO.
eds. Faculty members explain that
by pointing to the home provider"
duties of men students who. in most
cases are anxious to step out directly
| into the world OF industry. The ma
jority of students who major in the
liberal arts course make arrangements
for establishing themselves in various
fields Of work in their junior and
senior years and sometimes earlier.
"Grads" who Specialize.
The specialized business students
will be established in the various COM
mercial lines. including accounting.
banking. advertising, manufacturing,
merchandising, labor and employment,
stocks and bonds. insurance, &c.
Oratorical students will take up
Chautauqua and platform work. The
work in religious education and social
work is a comparatively new departure
and will award degrees to twenty stu
dents
About third of Cornell's gradu-
ating class this year will practice en-
gineering in its various branches, ac-
cording to a commencement sur
vey of this years graduating class
taken by colleges.
One hundred and seventy-two Sc
niors are registered in the college OF
mechanical engineering, and after
graduation will practice that profess
sicn. Many will enter such plants as
the Westinghouse Company. the Cen
eral Electric. &c. There are sixty-two
electrical engineers. a few specializing
in radio, and seventy-seven civil en-
gineers.
The law has attracted forty-three
in all. two of them women. Seven
teen hope to obtain the degree of vet
Urinary medicine, some planning TO
go into the Government veterinary
service, meat inspection. &c. and 9th
ers as veterinarians to large stock
breeders. Fourteen seek the degree
of architecture and some fifty will be-
come chemists. Upward of $50 will
graduate from the college of agricul-
ture, many of them hoping to manage
farms and others TO operate their own
farms. while a few will go into agri-
cultural teaching and extension work.
Some fifty women are candidates for
the degree in home economies. One
of the largest college arts has 245 men
seniors and 14O women. II is impos-
sible to say in detail what they will
do but a survey shows that quite a
number will go into business.
smaller number into teaching; others
will take professional studies in grad
uate schools of law medicine. &c. and
some are still undecided.
If ambitions are ever to be realized
Princeton University will send forth
in its graduating class this June an
aviator, an explorer, a pomologist,
rancher and director of cemetery
corporation. These are but a few OF
the fifty different vocations which the
members of the senior class intend to
enter, as is revealed by the results of
a canvass that was recently conducted
among them. Although 37s men have
definite idea of the vocation they are
to follow on leaving college, 11s grad
yates, or approximately one-quarter
of the class. are in an uncertain state
of mind on the subject.
Business holds first place by wide
margin among the occupations which