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1940 HAS FULL QUOTA OF SURGEONS, LAWYERS

ONE SEEDSMAN AND ONE LIGHTING FIXTURE MAN ON LIST

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Running approximately true to form 174 Freshmen picked medicine, law, and business as intended vocations, according to figures released through Phillips Brooks House yesterday on its poll of the entering class.

A Third of Class

With about a third of the class or 330 represented in the answers, 41 types of career are mentioned. Curiosity seekers may be amused to find a seedman, a psychiatrist, and a lighting fixture man on the list.

Advertising, an ordinarily popular branch of industry, only showed one supporter.

Yesterday's figures follow: Advertising 1, Archeology and American Archeology 4, Architecture 3, Astronomy 1, Art and Painting 2, Aeronautics 3, Biochemistry 1, Business 32, Biology 3, Banking and finance 6, Chemistry 16, Consular service 12, Forestry 1, Engineering 18, English 1, Journalism and literature 21.

Doctors, Lawyers

Law 65, Medicine and surgery 77, Government and politics 12, Public Service 2, Teaching 23, Theatre 2, Music 2, Ministry 2, Science 6, Grain Business 1, Physics 1, Psychiatry 1, Psychology 1, Patent law, chemistry 2, Y. M. C. A. 1, Manufacturing 1, Lighting Fixtures and Accessories 1, and History 1.

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