c _ MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE BULLETIN Vol. XIV. September, 1919 No. 1 A Statement of Openings for College Men, which may help you to decide. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/shalligotocollegOOwile Shall I Go To College ? The War has put college education to a severe test and the results have been clear and convincing. In every department of the service at home and abroad the -college trained man has forged ahead. This was not due to any favoritism, for in the stress of war tasks are assigned to those who can accomplish them best. In Eng- land, France and America the story has been the same; the college trained man has surely and rapidly won advancement. Thousands of men returning from service bring with them new and profound respect for college education. This superiority of the college trained man in so wide a range of emergencies as the war thrust upon society has demonstrated what many young men have been inclined to doubt, — that collegiate training furnishes the best preparation that can be found for lead- ership and constructive thinking in any career or vocation. Leaders are developed by education. That has been proved in every position of responsibility from Flanders fields to the remotest enterprise that had any connection with the war. THE TEST OF THE COLLEGE GREAT NEED IS TO COME We have gone far enough in the period of reconstruction to see that it will be the most trying age that modem men have ever faced. The tasks are enormous and stupendously difficult. The strongest and ablest men are staggering under the problems that confront us. In the days ahead every man will be a slacker who does not develop his powers to the utmost. The world needs men who can think, men who can see, men who can do things. mu x x iuf A xrc The College can build such men. It iuir r-rvr t vr'v has in * e P ast and [t win in the future - THE COLLEGE Why should it not? Xhe mat erial it works with are the selected products of the public and private schools of America. The unpromising have been sifted out by the high school 3 course and by the college entrance requirements. The unambitious will not find the courage to make the sacrifices necessary to a four year college course. Those who enter, eager to make the most of themselves, their primary ability proved, are submitted to the train- ing of experts, men who have given their lives to a particular de- partment of knowledge. Libraries and laboratories are provided at great cost. A curriculum is arranged on the basis of the com- bined experience of the trained minds of many centuries. In social organizations, in athletic contests, in the common life of col- lege halls, students exercise a wonderfully helpful influence upon each other, so that many old graduates testify that “college life” is the best part of college. There is nothing like it in all the world. Did you ever hear college men sing? WHAT DOES It is a fair question. And it has a more COLLEGE definite and specific answer than many LEAD TO ? realize. The college leads to so many things that its purpose may seem vague and indefinite. But such is not the case. Here are a few of the choices to which a college course is the best possible approach. Business. More and more college graduates are going into business, — banking, manufacturing, export trade, commercial pur- suits of many kinds. The possibilities of large rewards are very attractive. Every year the college has requests from large corpor- ations for men it can thoroughly recommend on the ground of character and ability. Some business enterprises have filed perma- nent requests for suggestions of promising men. Technical train- ing is not necessary, but a sound and thorough college course, with emphasis on economics, political science, mathematics, psychology, and Spanish. The college through its advisers is prepared to rec- ommend such a course and men of the right character will be watch- ed for. The Ministry. The American people are sorely in need of spiritual leadership of high order. Good ministers are scarce and are becoming scarcer. Prominent churches have recently been im- porting ministers from abroad, being unable to find men of the right calibre in the United States. A Vermont denomination is now advertising for five men for single church communities, each offer- 4 ing a field for constructive ability of high order. Positions of strategic importance in foreign countries are open to men of enter- prise. Pursued in a high spirit of devotion the ministry is the noblest of callings and Middlebury College is proud of the propor- tion of her graduates who have given their lives to spiritual leader- ship. For students intending the ministry a special course of study will be mapped out. Chemistry. One of the most attractive openings, calling for many more trained men than are yet in sight, is in manufacturing industry based on chemistry. The field is not new, but there has been a new expansion of it of large proportions. The keen inter- est in chemistry in Middlebury College has led to the erection of a large new laboratory building. Either as a candidate for the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science it is possible to take sufficient chemistry to assure the competent graduate of a good position. Teaching. Do you know that there are educational positions paying $10,000 a year? That salaries of $5,000 are not un- common? It is an altruistic calling, but if it appeals to you as the life work you would most like to follow, you have a right to aim at the highest rewards. They will come, not to those who look upon teaching as a make-shift, but to those who take scientific training for the profession. Middlebury College has a Department of Education, established and sustained by the State of Vermont, and the student who anticipates educational work is guided care- fully in a course of study that will lead to a certificate in any State. Foreign Trade. Through many American corporations new opportunities are opening to young men in foreign commerce. It is the new frontier in American life. The South American field is particularly inviting and is destined to become more so. There is nothing to prevent any capable young man from making a worthy place for himself in the new expansion of America. He should give special attention to modem history, economics, political science, and especially Spanish. Medicine. The United States is experiencing a shortage of competent physicians. In every State towns are calling for doctors and cannot get them. The related new profession of Sanitary Science is also a most inviting field. The American Miedical Association requires two years of college for admission to first class Medical Colleges, the studies to include chemistry, physics, biol- 5 ogy, and a modern language. The Middlebury curriculum allows such a course in Freshman and Sophomore years, but the student who spends four years in college and allows more time for human- istic studies, will be amply repaid. Law. Many young men conceive a wrong idea of the law from the criminal cases and pettyfogging with which he sees law- yers’ names frequently associated in the newspapers. Rightly con- ceived and practiced the law is one of the noblest of professions, the establishment of justice in human relations. There is always an opening for an able man in the law. While the intending lawyer will find use for accurate knowledge and sound training in any field, he should specialize in political science, economics, history, and philosophy. Forestry. For a limited number of men there are good open- ings in forestry, especially in connection with the great government Forest Reserves in the Far West. Middlebury College owns 25,000 acres of forest land in the magnificent Green Mountains within clear sight and easy reach of its campus and employs a Master of Forestry, who offers a course in Forest Management. Technical Forestry training should be reserved for the graduate school, but a beginning may be made in college. Students intending forestry should take drawing and surveying, biology, mathematics, physics, and economics. Engineering. It is not necessary to point out the great at- tractiveness of engineering, whether civil, mechanical, or electrical, nor the great need of thoroughly educated engineers in our new in- dustrial era. But a student who enters a liberal arts college does not shut himself out from consideration of engineering: rather is he entering upon what many consider the very best possible course of training for the profession — the combination of a liberal college course, not abbreviated, with two years graduate work in a techni- cal institution. The subjects fundamental to engineering are taught at Middlebury in the departments of drawing and surveying, mathe- matics, and physics, and the subjects are accepted for credit in the technical institutions of highest grade. The foregoing paragraphs have been written to show that students with a defi- nite vocational purpose will find what they are seeking in college, and also to stimulate ambition in view of the the BROADER PURPOSE 6 many urgent needs and attractive openings. But how about the student who does not know what he would like to do? College is the best place to find yourself. It will broaden your point of view, open to you knowledge of many fields, and furnish you the best possible environment in which to come to your own decision. Many a man has had his eyes opened in college to some work for which he had talents of high order, but of which he had not the dimmest inkling until in some college classroom or labora- tory the knowledge of the one calling in all the world for him was revealed. There is much in college for the men with definite vocational purpose, but the great benefit of the college is to give a man, whether he knows his profession or has still to decide upon it, that solid foundation of character and knowledge upon which he may build in after life. Four years are not too long for this foundation of work, and many thousands of American men will testify that they are the best four years of life. YOUR With the thousands returning to college ANSWER from the army and navy, this year will see the largest attendance the American colleges have ever had. A spirit of serious purpose and earnest ambition is bound to prevail. Decide to enroll among the number and to be one of those to do their full duty by their country and themselves by preparing for the largest possible service. There are many good colleges, but Middle- bury College has doubled its attendance, trebled its buildings, and quadrupled its endowments in ten years. It is one of the good col- leges as yet undiscovered by the crowd. If you are obliged to economize, so much the better: we can offer you special facilities. But the time is short. Send your name, address, school from which you graduated, and year of graduation, and full information and instruction as to further procedure will be sent you by return mail. Address — Dean Edgar J. 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