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(distance between base line and small mark at right of ordinate). The 

 ordinates for each of the other professions may be interpreted in the 

 same manner. The data in my possession make possible the study of 

 various other combinations of educational courses, as well as compari- 

 sons of them for persons of different ages showing the educational trend, 

 but lack of space prevents a discussion of these facts in the present 

 paper. I will say, however, that the figures do not show combinations 

 of training abroad with that in our home institutions. The spaces on 

 the figures which have to do with training abroad refer only to those 

 persons who failed to make any use whatever of home institutions, at 

 least above high school. 



Figures 4 and 5 then show 

 (1) the educational preparation 

 of persons of both sexes for the 

 various professions and (2) a 

 basis of comparison between the 

 two. They answer, too, a very 

 important question: "What kind 

 of preparation has proved most 

 essential to that kind of success 

 which mention in 'Who's Who' 

 means?" They have nothing to 

 do with the question, 'What kind 

 of jjreparation must the doctor, 

 or the lawyer, or the minister 

 have to be a doctor, or a lawyer, 

 or a minister,' but what kind is 

 most likely to put him in the 

 class of doctors, and lawyers, and 

 ministers who achieve eminence. 

 In other words, we are studying 

 selected persons in each profession, but since every man and woman 

 of proper ambition who enters a profession hopes to be one of those 

 selected, the problem has a wide bearing. 



In the discussion of the figures which follows I shall, for the sake 

 of directness and with full recognition of the fact that the two are not 

 synonymous, speak of those under each profession whose education 

 stopped with the high school (black portion of the ordinates) as un- 

 educated. Of this class the actor shows by far the greatest number 

 — so large that we could hardly advise the young person with histrionic 

 ambition to go to college merely as an aid to public recognition in his 

 art. There may be other inducements for him, but seemingly not that. 

 Business seems to offer the next largest inducement to the unedu- 

 cated; 84 per cent, of its devotees belong to that class. Twelve per 



fig. 5. 



