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senior, a young man twenty-two years of age. He 

 expressed preference for electrical engineering as a vo- 

 cation. His record of reading habits revealed the fact 

 that he was not interested in snch current magazines as 

 1 'The Scientific American" and "Popular Science", a 

 musical journal being the only technical journal in which 

 he expressed interest. He was interested in no club or 

 social activities except as revealed by his membership 

 in a young people's society of the church in which he was 

 a member. He had no hobbies which were in any way 

 connected with his vocational preference. His incidental 

 occupational experience gave no evidence of a back- 

 ground suggestive of his vocational preference. His lack 

 of leadership ability, absence of affiliation with social 

 groups, and his over-age indicated that his ability was 

 ordinary. He indicated his enjoyment of a book, "The 

 Life of Edison", which was probably the basis for his 

 vocational choice. 



CASE No. II was a high school senior, a young man 

 eighteen years of age. He indicated salesmanship of me- 

 chanical appliances as his desired vocation. He had 

 been employed during several vacation periods in a 

 wholesale house which handled mechanical appliances. 

 He read "The Scientific American"' and "Popular 

 Science". As one of his hobbies he liked to "fool 

 around" the physical laboratory at odd times and after 

 school hours. He had elected scientific subjects as a 

 major interest. His success in dealing with others was 

 indicated in his position of leadership in several high 

 school organizations. As a final response he indicated 

 that he had already secured employment with the firm 

 for which he had worked during vacations. 



The first of these cases reveals an evident lack of 

 consistency which is highly suggestive of unwarranted 

 objectives. In the second instance the unified and con- 

 sistent series of reactions give a record of an individual 

 who has largely handled his own case. In the absence 

 of personal contact experience with these two students 

 it would be dangerous to take the analysis blanks as 

 sole criteria for dealing with them; nor is this a neces- 

 sary function of self -analysis. As an aid, the informa- 



