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...final summary of thirty-seven representative colleges shows that teaching is now the dominant profession of college graduates, with twenty-five per cent; business takes twenty per cent.; law, which took one-third of all the graduates at the beginning of the ninetenth century, now claims but fifteen per cent.; medicine takes between six and seven per cent. and seems to be slightly on the decline; engineering is slowly going up, but still takes only three or four per cent.; while the ministry, with its present five or six per cent. of the total, has reached the lowest mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND COMMENT | 10/5/1912 | See Source »

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