The New York herald., 1922-06-11
unhappy country will suf-
fer from terrible shortage of


= preachers, if the reports, as
far as they have come in from the
strongholds of theology, speak a gen.
eral message. Wesleyan University,
that nursery of Methodism, will turn
out but seven ministers of the gospel
this year. The General Theological
Seminary of New York graduated but
twenty. And from the great univer-
sites, with their almost numberess
graduates in the straw vote taken of
potential occupations when one looks
for the men who intend taking a post
graduate course in theology with a
view to later filing pulpit one doesn't
find them.
In fact, if there is confidence to be
placed in this straw vote taken in a
dozen of our great educational centers
which was done at the suggestion Of
The NEW YORK HERALD, then evidences
Of the spread of materiality. which has
been widely noticed, are based on
truth. The great majority of the
young men who are leaving college
intend to take up some industrial call
ing in life.
lawyers and engineers added to these
already crowded professions, but not
nearly so many as have gone out from
the colleges in previous years. And
in certain institutions where the pro-
fession of law for it's graduated stu
dents had become : tradition this year
sees great change. For instance,
Dartmouth College, famous for being
the helping mother of Daniel Webster
among other things, will send this
year but two representatives into the
legal profession, while ninety-two
young men from there have an
nounced their purpose to go into busi-
ness or manufacturing.
From the Western Reserve Univer-
sity note from an official states that
fully one-half of the seasons output
mean to go into industrial callings.
Columbia University shows a simi-
lar prediction for business by it's
graduates, but the law and engineer
ing are claiming n goodly number
These indeed are as they have been
for several years at Columbia. the ia
vorite callings.
Law also draws crowd from New
York University. and leads. with en-
gineering good second, but it is al
most tied by the number of gradu-
ates VINO announce their intention to
get as quickly as they can into some
money making business. The gradu-
ates of the class of 1922 of the Col
.ege of the City of New York show
pretty nearly the same divisions.
Engineers Are Many.
Yale and Harvard graduates will
help out the medical profession by
considerable new blood, and medicine
draws also from the New York insti-
tutions mentioned. A fair number of
men in Harvard are attracted by lit
erature also, or some work in which
IL plays part. Certain of them as
pre- to be teachers and professors,
Notwithstanding the recently promul-
gated campaign to increase the sti-
pend OF these valuable citizens. or
maybe because of widespread belief
that this propaganda is likely to be
successful. There is no dearth to be
anticipated in the ranks of engineers.
Tor fully fourth of the combined ex-
odus from the two great universities
mean to join that corps.
Business attracts a fourth also of
the Harvard graduates, with a. rivalry
OF numbers among the lawyer class.
and at Yale the latter lead. From
both these universities there are many
sprinklings of graduates who have
elected to pursue an unusual calling.
Chemists, explorers archseoloeiste ara
here to be found in embryo.
or the one hundred men graduating
from Amherst College this year forty
four are planning to enter business. a
decrease of ten from last years dele
cation. Sixteen will study law. and
of these all but two are to enter ITar
ward Law School Five men will teach
and five will enter medical schools
While Amherst was once noted for
the number of ministers IL turned out
but two seniors plan to enter theo-
logical seminaries this year. Two men
will take up the insurance business
Even at this late date seventeen men
are still undecided. Other occupations
chosen by individuals are: Journalism
dentistry, chemical research, mining
a study of music. the stage. architec-
ture. industrial psychology and fur
ther study at Massachusetts Institute
Of Technology. Each year the stu
dent body elects a delegate to teach at