LAW, MEDICINE LEAD IN FRESHMAN CAREER POLL

Vocational choices of this year's freshmen class, as indicated on the annual Phillips Brooks House questionaire, showed a marked increase in the number of men turning to law for their life work. Displacing medicine and surgery as the most popular field, 1938 cast 65 votes in favor of legal work, an increase of 21 votes over last year. The study of medicine and surgery fell into second place, dropping from last year's total of 63 to a popularity of 54.

One men out of every four who filled out the questionaire expects to enter law, medicine, or surgery.

Educational work remains in third third place, while business shifted from fifth to fourth choice of the freshman class. Other fields remained fairly constant, with the exception of writing, which drew 6 votes, as against 2 in the previous year.

An exceptionally large number of men indicated that they were yet undecided about their future vocations. Out of 418 questionaires filled in, 148 men had not yet decided on their life's work. Last year, with approximately the same number of men responding to the questionaire, only 64 were undecided.

Undertaking appeared on the list for the first time in eight years, with one candidate signifying it as his choice.

Other new fields were psychiatry, ceramics, and music.

The total results in each field were as follows: law, 65; medicine and surgery, 54; teaching, 30, business, 28; engineering, 22; science, 19; journalism, 16; diplomatic work, 7; writing, 6; banking, 5; 2 votes each for dentistry, politics, archaeology, ministerial work, psychiatry, mathematics, and architecture, and 1 vote each for ceramics, pathology, music, and undertaking