Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Only One Chose to Be Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Only One Chose to Be Farmer.

It is interesting to - note the choice of pursuits made by the 136 students who were graduated during the recent commencement from the four colleges of Maine. One has chosen farming for an occupation; two each have chosen chemistry aqd the United States civil service, five journalism, seven mercantile pursuits, twelve engineering, thirteen the ministry, eighteen medicine, nineteen the law, thirty-three teaching, while twenty-four are undecided. The large proportion of these graduates to choose teaching and the small proportion to choose business are significant feature of the shewing. In the large universities the drift is very different. The fact that thirteen out of 136 choose the ministry proves that the “set” against the ministry is not so strong in the small as in the large colleges. At Yale, for expamle, this commencement only eleven out of a class of 187 chose the ministry. The pulpit is largely recruited these days from the small colleges.—New York Post.