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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



of the students registered in the law schools of our country had already 

 taken the bachelor's degree in some academic institution. This may 

 then be taken as the percentage of lawyers throughout the country who 

 have had the liberal training of the college course. But of our emi- 

 nent lawyers the percentage so trained is forty-six, implying that the 

 college educated lawyer's chances of being counted among the immortals 

 of 'Who's Who' are nearly doubled. This relationship is more exactly 

 shown in Fig. 6. Without discussing the engineer, the librarian, the 

 scientist or the educator, whose educational conditions are shown and 

 for whom no further comparisons can be made, the clergyman comes in 

 for his share in the analysis. In his case we find about one fourth 

 are uneducated, one half with college education and one third, that of 



Fig. 6. 



the professional school. For him too we have only the figures of the 

 U. S. Commissioner as a basis of comparison. Of the divinity school 

 students of our land we there find that 24.7 per cent, have taken a 

 college degree. But of the 'Who's Who' clergy, 53.3 per cent, had been 

 so rewarded. The premium which a comparison of these two puts upon 

 the college bred minister is also shown in Fig. 6 and is one not to 

 be disregarded by the aspirant for pulpit honor. On the score of post- 

 graduate attainments the clergyman is shown to be an industrious 

 worker. 



The banner professions, so far as educational accomplishments are 

 concerned, are seen to be those of college instruction and medicine, 

 with the showing slightly in favor of the latter if we disregard post- 

 graduate honor, in which the college men easily outrank all others. 

 These, too, have made more extensive use of opportunities for study 



