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The two occupations in which the increase of recent graduates is 

 most noticeable are secretarial or clerical and philanthropic, notably 

 college settlement, work. Of the 18 secretaries, there are three in 

 the first decade, three in the second and 12 in the third decade. Sev- 

 eral of these hold positions in colleges. Philanthropic work as a pro- 

 fession belongs wholly to the second and third decades. In the second 

 decade are four graduates : three missionaries, two to Japan and one to 

 India, and a Salvation Army worker; in the third decade are eight: 

 five settlement workers, including one head resident; one missionary 

 to China, one district agent of organized charities and one assistant 

 secretary, State Charities Aid Association, making twelve in all. This 

 list includes those only who seem to be devoting their whole time to 

 the work; hence many holding prominent offices in the Women's 

 Christian Temperance Union and various missionary organizations are 

 not mentioned. 



Under the somewhat liberal term of executive work are grouped 

 three members of the first and three members of the second decade, 

 though the members of the first might almost be classed in the philan- 

 thropic list. They are the matron of a reformatory home, the manager 

 of a children's home and the secretary of a Young Women's Christian 

 Association. In the second decade are an assistant to the lady prin- 

 cipal of Vassar, a bursar of Barnard College and a worker at Pratt 

 Institute. 



Music and art have attracted eight graduates each. The artists 

 are four in the first, and two in each of the other decades. Some of 

 these have attained more than local note. The musical people are 

 thus divided: In the first decade are two organists; in the second, an 

 organist, a concert pianist, a professional singer and an assistant super- 

 visor of music, New York schools; in the third decade are an organist 

 and a professional accompanist ; making eight in all. 



It may surprise some readers to know that eight of the graduates 

 have engaged in agricultural operations. In the first decade two are 

 registered as farmers, a third as a dairy farmer and a fourth as man- 

 ager of the Kingwood herd for the making of sterilized milk; there 

 is also a fruit grower. In the second decade are a stock farmer and 

 an orange grower. In the third decade is a rose grower. Let us hope 

 that these educated women may wrest wealth as well as health from 

 their contact with the soil. 



Five graduates have engaged in business, three in the second and 

 two in the third decade. In the second decade two are managers of 

 manufacturing concerns and one is in the lumber business. In the 

 last decade one has been business manager of a newspaper and is 

 treasurer of a publishing company and one is in the jewelry business. 



Vassar has always had a decided leaning toward astronomy, due 



