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Fact and Comment

(Cornell Daily Sun).

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Professor William B. Bailey, of Yale, writing for a recent number of the Independent, gives statistics covering the occupations of college graduates since 1642. Taking three periods a century apart, the percentages were as follows:   1696-1700.  1796-1800.  1896-1900. Ministry,  65.6  21.4  5.9 Law,  1.6  30.5  15.6 Medicine,  3.1  8.4  6.6 Education,  4.7  5.7  26.7 Business,  1.6  5.6  18.8 Pub. Service,  9.4  1.1  1.0

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