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...vocational bent in higher education has obvious pitfalls. "This whole business of trying to pick a major to match a job is just Russian roulette," says Harvard's Freeman. Today's "hot" fields-engineering or accounting, for example-could be glutted in a few years much as aerospace science, the glamour field of the early 1960s, fell fallow by the decade's end. Besides, asks Herbert Salinger, director of career planning at Berkeley: "Should we turn someone off to a field that really interests him" because job prospects are slim...
Teammate and co-captain-elect John Major performed excellently in the foil event of the meet. Major was eliminated in the last round of the quarterfinal competition last Friday night by U.S. Olympic team member Bert Freeman...
This decline is limited to the areas of humanities and the social sciences, fields which do not emphasize specific training for professional careers, Freeman said...
...Freeman cited statistics showing a sharp drop in the number of recent Harvard graduates applying to non-professional graduate programs as proof of the declining status of such degrees...
...Freeman attributed this narrowing of the income gap to the increased number of college-educated people in the job force, coupled with a general decline in demand on the part of employers...