Friday, March S, 1943
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Entering Students Top
In High School Classes
One-fourth of the students -who enter the University of
Nebraska come from farms and agricultural areas.
Yet of these students from the farms, only one-third of
them in the last three years expressed a desire to return to
agriculture as a vocation.
That is one of the facts pointed out in a study recently
completed by' Dr. George W. Koscnlof, registrar and director
of admissions at the university.
Figures from Registration.
Rosenlof gathered the informa
tion from registering freshman
classes in September, 1940, '41,
and '42. Entering students for the
three years totaled 3,155, of which
1,990 (60) were men and 1,165
(40) were women.
Compilation of data revealed the
following conclusions:
1. For men, engineering was
. predominant as a vocational
choice. In 1942 there was a
slight tendency for a greater
percentage to express an inter
est in medicine and dentistry.
For women, teaching was the
first vocational choice, followed
by dietetics, music and radio.
Salesmanship, office work and
agency activity followed. A
comparatively large percentage
of both men and women In both
1941 and 1942 expressed no final
.choice of vocational interest.
Athletics, Music Predominate
Extra-Curricular Activities.
Athletics is the predominant
extra-curricular interest of men,
while music is the choice of
women. Church work apparently
is second in interest of both men
and women, with dramatics third.
2. The dominant reason of both
men and women entering the uni
versity is to increase their fund of
knowledge. Second reason given
by students for seeking a college
education is that college training
is necessary to one's chosen pro
fession. Third reason is to in
crease earning power. More than
half of the students mention the
cultural value of education and
the opportunities which such an
education provides for improve
ment of one's citizenship.
3. Freshman students at the
University of Nebraska very
predominantly come from the
highest and second-highest quar
ters of their high school gradu
ating classes. A comparatively
small percentage, as would be
expected, come from the fourth
quarter of their classes.
4. The student body represents
a cross section of the occupational
interest of Nebraska citizens. One
fourth of the students' parents are
engaged in agriculture. Second in
rank of parental occupations is
merchandising; third is the group
including agents, office workers
and salesmen; and fourth, the
trades.
5. While parents are charac
teristically the source of sup
port in education of these young
people, a very large percentage
of the men find their savings of
considerable importance. About
one-fourth of the women stu
dents report savings as a source
f financial support.
6. Fewer than 15 percent of the
men and about 30 to 35 percent of
the women during these three
years have been earning less than
10 percent of their expenses
earning it while in school. Esti
mated costs of education vary all
the way from $200 to $600, the
percentage of persons, at either
extreme being comparatively
small. The large number who in
dicated $200 or less are accounted
for very probably by those who
live in Lincoln and do not figure
room and board in their costs.
That students in this agricul
tural state are seeking other vo
cational fields is illustrated in the
following table. (Choices are
shown in terms of percentages).
Vocational Choice.
1941 1942
Freshman Freshmen
Vocational choice: M W M W
Agents, office workers,
ealcs 9 12 7 17
Agriculturists . . 8 12 7
Bankers, financial
agents
Government and pub
lic service 2 2 2
Manufacturers, public
utilities
Merchants, dealers,
proprietors
Teachers 6 28 2 25
C. P. A i
Architect, artist 1 3 1 1
Engineer 30 35
Lawyer a 1 4 1
Doctor, dentist, nurse,
surgeon 9 H 10 15
Minister
Pharmacist, chemist,
geologist 5 1 6 2
Author, editor, Journal
ist 4 3 2 5
Dietician, musicians,
radio, mlsc 3 22 4 22
Trades 1
None stated 15 17 18 12
It will be noted that none of the
students in either 1941 of 1942 was
interested in the specific vocations
of banking and finance, manufac
tures and public utilities, merchan
dising and the ministry. Yet from
10 to 17 percent of the students
indicated the college of business
administration as their field of
study.
It is evident that in more than
three-fourths of the cases, stu
dents are dependent to a very
large degree upon the abilities of
their parents to provide them with
financial aid. Generally speaking,
about one-fifth of both men and
women had received scholarships
of one kind or another. The Uni
versity of Nebraska Board of Re
gents awards scholarships annu
ally to approximately 250 stu
dents Below is a table showing
the sources of financial support
by percentages:
1940 1941 1942
Freshman Freshman Freshmnn
M W M W M W
Parents ...77 90 76 83 73 90
Savings ...46 20 59 30 71 28
Borrowings 8 4 6 4 5 4
Schol'shlps 22 22 26 30 22 20
Other 8 9 8 8 7
Not stated 5 1 4 3 2 2
Students in very large numbers,
more especially the men, are sup
plementing their savings in caring
for the expenses of a college edu
cation. Less than 15 percent of
the men and approximately one
third of the women report earn-
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BY MARY ELLEN SIM.
It went on for years and years;
the Nebraskan every March de
voted page after page of print;
and thru the years everyone just
expected to pick up a paper some
miming and see, splashed all over,
lat least a half dozen pictures and
a dozen full columns of type. -
Then, a year and a half ago,
some of our eastern neighbors got
Jumpy, and one lazy Sunday aft
ernoon while we were all sleeping
off Sunday dinner, a few of them
jumped right onto the little island
in the fish pond out in our back
yard. Most of us were quite sur
prised. Everybody went along as usual,
dating and, as spring breezes
flitted up from the south, looking
more and more languidly at the
outside cover of Ecenbier's "His
tory of Ecoonmics." There were
a few more news stories on the
military side, and a couple col
' umns on war. Some sports writ
J ers called a few premature signals
as to wiiat coaches might have to
use for a forward line in the fall.
No one cared much. Fall was a
long time away.
Even when it was rumored that
university students might be asked
to pass up that extended week-end
of spring vacation and that rumor
became a fact, few got very ex
cited. War and its effects were
just accepted.
The AWS board ventured out of
its corner then and said, "There
will be no best dressed girl award
this year. There will instead be
a typical Nebraska coed presented
at the Coed Follies."
The board paused a moment,
expecting the skies to fall.
None fell.
There was no great fanfare of
publicity. There were no cries of
hate, derision, or no body wrack
ing sobs of disappointment from
those who had pointed themselves
for the BDG honor. There were
only a few quiet sighs of lamenta
tion, and a few wishes that my
college years 4 had been peace
years.'' . ,
ings of less than 10 percent. Fol
lowing is the table of percentages
of expenses earned while in school:
1940
m w
Percent
of
Expenses
0 to 9. . .13 28
10 to 19. ..12 2
20 to 29
30 to 39
40 to 49... 5
1941 1942
Freshman Freshman
M W M W
14 31 13 37
2 9 6 6
9 8 10 9
7 4 12 7
7 3 7 4
..17
3
6
50 to 59..
60 to 69. .
70 to 79..
80 to 89..
90 to 99. ..13
Undecided. 7
Not stated. 20
19
2
3
2
7
31
19 12
3 2
4 3
1
7 2
13 11
13 22
20 10
3 1
4 1
1
5
6
3
3
12 19
That the university is composed
of students who are the "cream of
the high school crop," scholastical
ly, is shown by the following table,
which shows the distribution of the
students in quarters of their grad
uating high school classes:
1940 1942
Freshman Freshman
Quarter M W M W
First 48 63 41 56
Second 27 23 22 20
Third 14 11 12
Fourth 11 4 7
Not stated 1 18 11
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