Business Men, Manufacturers and Lawyers Only Graduates Sure to Succeed--Writers and Dramatists Doomed to Fail

Those Seniors who intend to go into writing or into government service are the most likely to be disillusioned. Prospective business men, lawyers and manufacturers, on the other hand, probably will stick to the work from their graduation on. These generalizations are based on a set of figures published in the 1925 Senior Album. They are statistics of the class of 1903, showing just what occupations its members are actually engaged in and statistics of the class of 1925, showing in what vocational directions the ambitions of this year's Seniors lie, just before their graduation.

The figures are compiled from reports and questionnaires of the two classes. The percentages vary widely in nearly everything except business and law. The former has 44 per cent of the 1903 class and bids fair to claim 40 per cent of this year's Seniors. The role of Distribution, as a business activity, seems to have become either more important or more attractive in the last twenty-two years, since 15 per cent of this year's class are planning to enter it, while only 6 per cent of the 1903 men are now engaged in it.

Writing leads the list of occupations in which many Seniors have placed their ambitions, and which has few of the older graduates in the ranks at present. Nearly one man in every twenty, or 4.8 per cent of the class, has signified his intention of going into writing. Only 3 per cent of the 1903 graduates are now writing as a profession. Drama, music, government service and medicine are the only other professions which show a marked falling off between the two figures, the government service percentage dropping from 5 to 1.3.

Less than one per cent of the Senior Class have decided to take up farming as a life work, yet if these figures are to be believed, many more of them will eventually change their minds. The graduates of 1903 are represented in agriculture by a percentage of 3.6. Engineering seems to be in the same class of professions, while teaching, architecture, journalism and publishing show percentages that vary only a little.