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The Senior Album, large, well edited, informative, has appeared with its interesting records and its invaluable picture gallery. With it come statistics, none of prime importance, all offering more or less of an insight into the minds of incipient alumni. That inclusive giant "Business" is hailed as the favored occupation, while the professions follow below in varying degrees of popularity. Sports, such as Painting, Radio Engineering, and Oil Refining occur and there is, of course, a large number of men who did not signify their future work.

Possibly the most striking statement is that out of the Senior Class only twenty one men intend to enter the teaching profession. Law claims six and Medicine three time as many as this, the one occupation with which the graduating men have had close connection. What is the cause of this reluctance to continue in academic careers? Does the comparatively limited financial income of the teacher stand wholly responsible? Or has four years in college resulted in a desire to get out into what is loosely termed the World?

In all probability the answer lies in none of these suggestions. Today--and even more so tomorrow--a Bachelor's degree is but the bottom rung in the educational ladder. Men choosing the pedagogic field must now prepare to leap the hurdles of the Master's and the Doctor's letters. Therefore although many have the teaching profession in mind they hesitate to announce their decision on entering the graduate school, realizing that further study may possibly lead them into paths divergent from the professorial chair. A man entering the Law School or the Medical School has his future definitely decided; in a certain number of years he will be a lawyer, a physician. For him the opportunities for changes of mind are rare. Different is the case with the Arts and Sciences men; their goal is vague, indefinite. In consequence many men now leaning toward teaching prefer to reserve their decision until the further study which has come to be a requisite to success in education has solved their problem, in the meantime their status continues to be that of "student", although in reality their position is as much one of orientation as that of the man who is floundering uncertainly during his first two or three years out of college.