gen- disappointing. Proper consideration must be paid to other inclinations than the desire to earn money.
The following clipping from The Chicago Tribune shows the point of view of practically all newspaper writers on the subject of the profession of the engineer. This was taken from a page containing advertisements of schools, some technical schools being represented, but, of course, this fact cannot be supposed to have influenced the writer of the article clipped:
FUTURE DEMANDS TRAINED ENGINEERS
The field for the labors of the engineer—constructive or electrical—are practically unlimited. The student graduating from the accredited technical school is assured of good positions months before he graduates. Indeed, it is a true embarrassment of riches when, as is repeated yearly with the graduating classes of every technical school, the youthful engineer has to choose between several enticing and profitable offers of employment before he has ceased to breathe school-room air.
Only one among the multiplied advantages of engineering as a profession compared with the older professions of medicine and the law, is that the young engineer is entirely and comfortably self-supporting from the beginning—earning a good salary from the start. The technical school trained engineer holds the world in his hand. Employers are waiting for him. Opportunities for ultimately becoming independent or his own employer, are legion.
There does exist just the demand mentioned in the, article, but there also exists a demand in
