Jobs

Ohio State University last week issued an employment survey of the 1,400 students who will be graduated in June. Because Ohio is an average State and the university a land grant institution (as opposed to a rich, private college), the following forecasts might be taken as typical of the U. S.:

If you expect to gain a Ph. D. degree you have the best chance of any at a job. But Ph. D.'s go into highly specialized work.

Schools of Commerce and Administration expect a "fair" percentage of students to get employment. About half of the teachers, about one-fourth of the electrical engineers, will find places. Industrial engineers, if they find work at all, will start off at $80 a month.

Least promising fields are journalism, law, architecture. No 1931 graduate of Ohio State's Architecture Department has yet found employment.

In Manhattan, reported Columbia University last week, the outlook for lawyers is better than it was a year ago. Depression has increased the number of lawsuits, chiefly for nonpayment of bills. Architecture is worse than ever. Most of last year's class are out of work. This year's class of 30 means "30 more architects out of work." The Journalism School expects to place half of its graduates, although Manhattan newspapers are hiring fewer than last year.

Band Wagon. At the annual banquet last week of the Yale Daily News (see p. 28), Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson advised today's college graduate to look upon Business as a professional or graduate school where he will study trade for at least three years. Let him have patience, reflect that parents were once willing to pay firms to take in and train their sons. Depression has made business wary, efficient--"only the best men have been retained and the way to advancement is open to the best men without favoritism. Today there is the opportunity of learning the absolute foundations. . . . The business band wagon is having a pause and now is a good time to get on it."

Sympathy Appeal. Many a U. S. housewife knows well the student door-to-door salesman with his plea: "Just two more and I get the scholarship." Last week 27 colleges, through the Eastern College Personnel Officers' Association, denounced this "sympathy appeal" as "definitely harmful to the students' moral sense." The Association, whose members get summer jobs for students, will hereafter stipulate against "sympathy appeal" in its contracts.

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