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Professions Represented in Who's Who 



IN America, Showing Percentage of 



College Graduates^ 



Per Cent 

 Per Cent College 

 Profession of Total Graduates 



Lawyers 17.6 52 



Doctors y,y 4g 



Ministers 1 1.6 81 



Technical : 



agriculturists, engineers, etc. .. 6.4 46 



Artists and musicians 5.2 10 



Educators 22.* 100* 



Authors 20.* 46* 



Business men yc* 29* 



Miscellaneous 2 * 



The correlation of a liberal college education 

 with the attainment of distinction cannot be 

 brought to light, however, without using the 

 success of non-college men as a basis for com- 

 parison. In order to discover the latter, it will 

 be necessary to follow through the statistics of 

 a single year age group. For this purpose the 

 group of persons now at the " modal " age have 

 been chosen, as at that age the maximum of 

 attainment with the minimum of elimination 



^ Data from Who's Who in America (1912), except 

 starred items, which are estimates based on random 

 samplings in the same work. 



