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Eleetric Profess One member of the University of never makes a mistake is the Interna operated by the student personnel bt The machine, which will be used the South Carolina High School Li versity this week, is pictured above, field, University senior. Ten papers, each containing 150 qi by the machine with a degree of accu Three thousand preliminary contest I program were scored in this mannet. Only about 50 of the electric sco the nation. The University of Sout Students mark answers to questic leaving the test booklets unmarked pencil marks, which are graphite, p current. Both right and wrong ans% the total score registered. University Offers New Facffities Greatly Increased Physical Plant Adds Inducement With increased and steadily in- I creasing physical facilities the Uni versity of South Carolina is better able than ever before to offer a superior college career to high school graduates. Within the last few years, nu merous changes for the better have been made. The Student Union building, designed as a comb)ina tion dormitory and recreation build ing, offers attractive dormitory fa cilities as well as a recreation hall eqitipped with pool and ping-pong tabjes. In the same building, an enlarged post office, canteen, and book store contribute to the con venience of students. A new hydraulic engineering building has been recently com-< pleted and is being equipped .to en- f able students of engineering toi make a more thorough study of I this subject. Outstanding among the additions to the University's plant is the new i $108,000 swimming pool. ,Sufficient ly large to care for a student i body considerably larger than the< one at present, the pool is equipped with the most modern filtering I and purifying devices available.t The design of the pool itself is the result of months of careful plan- f ning and study by members of the faculty and student body of the I school of engineering. Two new dormitories, one for men and one for worpen, now ris-< ing on the campus, will adequatelyr care for the increased enrollment expected for September. Woric has just begun on a news library building, to be one of the C finest in the south when completed. Provision for an increased numberi of books will make research easieri for the student, while furnijure de signed both for comfort and use d will contribute to the comfort oft students who wish to do their studying there.< A grant for a numlier of new ten- I nis courts, to replace those de stroyed by the extensive building activities on the campus, has just been approved by federal authori-i ties. Carolina has always been able to ' give students a good, solid educa-t tion. The school is still able to do that, but now it is able to offer these many other advantages be-i sides. PALMETTO STAT! IFE INBURANOE COMPANY Offers Protection -- Service Loyalty Industrial and Ordinary Marna Office: olumnbia, 5. 0. or South Carolina staff who almost tional electric test scoring machine Lreau. to correct 880-odd papers during hague's final contests at the Uni operated by Junius Rowe, Edge lestions, can be scored per minute racy far surpassing human scorers. >apers of the High School League -ing machines are in operation in Ii Carolina pioneered in their use. ns on inexpensive answer sheets, md available for future use. The ermit the transmission of electric ,ers are calculated in this way and Awards Given For Shorthand Gregg writing progress awards, riven for proficiency in shorthand, vere awarded recently to six stu lents of Carolina secretarial science lasses. The students receiving the a vards were Margaret Cannon, Bess Dowling, Tom Jolly, Evelyn Preacher, Helen Shuler, and El ouise Singley. 0. A. T. certificates have been von by Mary Benjamin, Dorothy -aughman, and Dorothy Spencer. 3orothy Caughman also won the ompetent Typist award, given for uperior speed. Radcliffe Coeds Have Novel Date System~ Color-Blind Gals Have Hard Time Keeping Informed Cambridge, Mass.-(ACP)-Date liscussions after an evening away romn the study desk began to take ap too much time for industrious ladcliffe College women, so they've ome up with a newv-fangled time aving system that deserves a place n the book -of famous inventions. This new "date reporting" sys em was devised, the girls say, be ause they "simply must report the alient features of dates if they ex ect to share the big moments of heir dormitory pals." Telling the story to all of a girl's riends takes up a good part of a. ollege girl's morning, so something ad to be done, it is explained. Here's how it works: When v~omen of Radcliffe return to their formitories in the evening, they nst "sign in" in a big book pro ided for the purpose. But one in ~enious studenit has provide'd the igner-inners with a big bunch of lifferent colored pencils and a chart, vhich tells thenm which color to se to rate their escort of the even ng. Bright red, for example, tells the ormitory girls of a "perfectly swell ime." "Take green," one girl said. "An ntry in that color means a girl ad just a plain nice time-a date vith a Harvard man for instance. rhey usually average green." Purple is tops. A report writtets ai purple means that the evening's xperience was "too, too divine." rhe official girl's definition is 'all his and heaven too.'" - As for the other colors: Brown means "just a job," do nig anything that takes up a night, ut isnt "exactly fun." *Think of COLUMBIl Prod SSold At Th Frosh C Next Y WorkSpeeds On Dorms Work on Carolina's two new dor mitories-men's and women's-is progressing rapidly. The walls of two floors of the new women's dormitory have been completed, and work is going' for ward to complete the remainder of the walls. , The superstructure of the new men's building is also rising rapid ly. Work on both buildings is sched uled to be completed by next fall, to care for the expected increase in enrollment. Applications for space in the women's building which is now under construction will be re ceived by University officials be ginning May 1. Rooms in the two women's buildings may be reserved for a fee of $5. In case the appli cant wishes to withdraw the appli cation at a later date, the entire amount will be immediately re funded. Both buildings will be of mod ern, fireproof construction. The walls of the women's building are of face brick, while hollow tile is being used as the construction ma terial for the men's dormitory. Statistics On Given By U. How do college graduates fare after they leave college? From 46,000 college alumni grad uated from 31 institutions of high er learning throughout the United States from 1928 to 1935 the Office of Education, Department of the Interior, has obtained some of the answers. The college alumni study, directed by Dr. Walter J. Green leaf, Office of Education Special ist in Higher Education, was con ducted with emergency relief funds by 31 cooperating universities. The following significant facts which the survey revealed were reported today by John W. Studebaker, Commissioner of Education: AGE AT GRADUATION-The typical college graduation age for alumni reporting was 22 years. MARITAL STATUS-College men tend to marry earlier and in larger proportion than college women. Western college gradu ates marry sooner and in larger proportion than college men from any other section of the United States. CHILDREN-The largest pro portion of children is found in the families of western men alumni and thie smallest proportion in the famn ilies of eastern women alumni. Married alumni who have no chil dren are represented by 57 per cent of the men and 61 per cent of' the women. Children resulting from marriage of 12,233 men grad uates number 7,727; from mar riage of 6,359 women, 3,463. DIVORCE-The divorce rate among college alumni is low, comn pared with tbat of the country as a whole. The alumni rate in this study over the eight-year period is 19 divorces per 1,000 marriages. More college women than college men are divorced. RESIDENCE-More than half of the men and women graduates in this study now live in metropolitan cities of 100,000 population or more. RENTS-Younger graduates one and two years out of college tend to live with relatives and pay no rent. Typically, a young man just out of college pays from $19 to $25 per month for living accommoda tions. His rentals increase annual ly by $1 to $3 per month until af ter eight years he is paying $38 per month. College women find rents for living quarters slightly higher at first, increasing to $34 a month after eight years. UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS -Engineering and business adnmin istration are the most popular un dergraduate majors for men. Wom en graduates majored most largely in education and English. EMPLOYMENT-Men tend to find work eventually that is in line with their specialization in college. Women find their work less in line with their major college study. Yellow means, "an utter flop." Blue indicates an "ambulance." This is dormitory terminology for a plain walk. 1 DAIRIES ucts Le Canteen amp H ear, J0 HistoricLibrary Will Be Put To Other Uses First Separate Building Of Kind In United States With the building of Carolina's new library, the old one, first sep arate building at any college built for that purpose in the United States, will end its existence as a library. Built in 1840, 99 years ago, the structure now houses approximately 150,000 volumes, as well as reading and periodical rooms, offices, and a museum room. From 1865 to 1868, the State Sen ate made use of the building to hold its sittings. In 1927, two fireproof wings were added to each end of the building, to increase the storage and study space. At the present time, the building is crowded with books and peri odicals, and is handicapped by in adequate shelf space, and inade quate space for students. to study. Grads S. D. I. SELF-HELP-Sixty-eight per cent of the men and 43 per cent of the women earned from one-fourth to all of their college expenses. GRADUATE STUDY-One-half of both men and women alumni in classes 1928 through 1935 contin ued later with graduate study. GRADUATE MAJORS - The most popular graduate majors were medicine, law, education, business, chemistry and economics for men, and education, English, socology, history, Romance languages and home economics for women. EXTENSION WORK-One of every eight men and one of every five women cooperating in this study reported having taken exten sion courses. DEGREES-Three-quarters of the men and seven-eights of the women hold one degree only, either the bachelor's degree or first pro fessional degree. FIRST JOBS-Personal initia tive plus experience prior to grad uation account for half of the place ment of college graduates in first jobs. WHY CHOSEN - Thirty-five per cent of the women and 27 per cent of the men reported choosing their first jobs because the work was the kind they wanted. Thirty per cent of the men and 19 per cent of the women were unable to find the work they wanted. UNEMPLOYMENT - F ifi t yr eight per cent of the men graduates and 61 per cent of the women grad uates have never been idle at all since graduation. Graduates of the 1932 class were out of employment for the longest periods. RELIEF-Ninety-eight per cent of the men alumni and 99 per cent of the women alumni have never been on relief. EMPLOYMENT - Ninety-six per cent of all the men and 93 per cent of all the women reporting were either permanently or tempo rarily employed. After the first year out of college about three quarters of both men and women find gainful employment. About one-sixth of the graduates either continue graduate study for higher degrees, or, in the case of women, marry and become homemakers. After eight years most of the men are employed (97.9 per cent) few are studying for advanced degreesi (1 per cent) and 37 per cent of the women have become homemakers. S. H. KREl 5, 10 and WE IN~VI to inspect our comp "Scholastic" S SHOP IN C Air Conditioned . sd Sept Ily Anj Leader Ray Overton, above, member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, and an active worker in student affairs, heads the recently organized Episcopal stu denfs' organization. OWNERS-After graduation 10 per cent of the men start out in a business or profession of their own. After eight years 31 per cent are independent of employers. In the West 9.5 per cent of the women one year out of college own their own businesses. The proportion increases until after eight years 19 per cent are established as owners or part owners. EMPLOYEES-Fifty-three per cent of the college men found work after graduation as clerks or un skilled workers. Of the women graduates 52 per cent began with the clerical types of work. SALARIES-The salary scale of men alumni is higher than that of women alumni, although older women receive more than younger mcn generally. The average col lege man out of school one year receives a typical salary of $1,314; the graduate out of school two years $1,455; three years, $1,551; four years, $1,684; five years, $1,847; six years, $2,008; seven years, $2, 138 and eight years, $2,383. Women Iraduates receive salaries ranging from $1,092 the first year out of college to $1,606 the eighth year. INVESTMENTS -Seventy-sev en per cent of the men and 71 per cent of the women report having ,no investments of any kind. OCCUPATIONS-Nearly two thirds of the college alumni report ed themselves in the professional group. Seventeen per cent of the men were teaching, 13 pr cent were in engineering, 9 per cent in law and 6 per cent in medicine. Forty-eight per cent of the women alumni were following teaching careers; while 29 per cent reported general occu pations, including 16 per cent in domestic work. EARNINGS-Among the best paid occupations for college men immediately after graduation are dentistry, forestry and telephone wvork which pay typically $2,000 or more. Agriculture, architecture, en gineering and public office positions pay $1,500 to $2,000 median salaries the first year. After eight years groups wvho are earning typical sal aries of $2,500 or more are in den tistry, medicine, law, public office, architecture, insurance, research, forestry, business and telephone work. Those, who after eight years earn from $2,000 to $2,500 median salaries are in manufacturing, mner chandising, engineering, banking, pharmacy, teaching, agriculture and real estate. Those who receive less are in many other occupations which include journalism, ministry, uid clerical service. ~ss & Co. i5e Store TE YOU lete assortment of hool Supplies OMFORLT Reat Conditionned ember lounces ODK Calls For Points By May 7 New Point System Used First Time Application blanks for member ship into Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fra ternity, must be handed in by .Way 7, it was announced by Rob :rt Earle Penland, president of the >rganization. Blanks may be secured from Prof. R. A. James of the school >f secretarial science. Election of new members will be held on Wed niesday, May 10, and tapping of le new members will take place n chapel the following Friday. Membership in Omicron Delta Kappa will be based on the point system recently published in The amecock, with one hundred points being required for membership. A "C" average is also required or membership. Omicron Delta Kappa was found !d at Washington and Lee Univer sity in 1915 for the purpose of recognizing leadership, bringing to gether closer relations between the students and faculty members, and promoting the welfare of the Uni versity. Chi circle of the frater nity was established at the Univer sity of S. C. in 1927. Officers of the local 0. D. K. chapter are, president, Robert Earle Penland; vice-president, Rob ert Shaw; and recorder. St. Claire Muckenfuss, Jr. Prof. R. A. James is faculty advisor for the group. -. 1. C. TYPICAL-In general a typical graduate will enter an occupation paying about $1,321 (median) for his first year. After eight years he will be receiving $2,416 (median). Eleven per cent nf the alumni out of college eight years report earn ings of from $4,000 to $5,000 or more while. 11 per cent receive $1,500 or less. FOR WOMEN-Nursing and teaching are the best paid occupa tions for a woman during her first year out of college. The median salary for nursing is $1,692 and for teaching $1,236. A woman out of college one year receives typically $1,100 compared with $1,608 for the woMan eigiht years out of college. Colleges and Universities partici pating in this survey were: Boston University, Boston, Mas sachusetts; Columbia University, Teachers College, Newv York, New York; Newv York University, New York, New York; Syracuse Univer sity,'Syracuse, Newv York; Brook lynz Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, New York; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Univer sity' of Vermont, Burlington, Ver mont; University of Chicago, Chi cago, Illinois; DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois; University of Il linois, Urb)ana, Illinois; Wayne University, D)etroit, Michigan; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Western Reserve Uni versity, Cleveland, Ohio: Univer sity of Toledo, T~oledo, Ohio; South Dakota State College, Book ngs, South D)akota. Also Tulane University, New 3-14 Deans To Aid In Program Orientation Is Camp's Purpose Plans for the Freshman camp, to be held prior to the opening of school next fall are being com pleted, according to Tom Jolly, chairman of the committee. The camp will be held September 8-11. The new men will come to the campus Monday in time to meet with the remaining members of the Freshman class at the first assembly at 12 o'clock. Deans of the various schools will come out to explain their courses to the new men. Dean Chase will explain matriculation to them. Talks will be given on how to choose a course, Carolina traditions, honor system, fraternities and other subjects. The Freshman camp is one of the traditions at Carolina, which had the first such camp in the south and which conducts one of the few such camps at the present time. Freshmen who attend the camp have the advantage over oth'er freshmen in their knowledge of the intricacies.,of college life. Because of the limited number of men who can be accommodated reservations will be accepted ac cordingly as they are turned in. Last year about 10 freshmen were turned down. Also this year the number of upper class counselors will be limited to 12 in order to ac commodate as many freshmen as possible. --U. 3. 0. Weinefeld Spikes Student's Complaint It all happened during one of those somber moments when the class, with Monday countenances on Wednesday, listened to Pro fessor Robert H. Wienefeld recite some salient facts about the next quiz. "We've covered the Mediterra nean situation, Russia, the League of Nations, Germany's march to the East-" At this point the professor was interrupted by a perturbed student. "You mean we are going to have the lectures on Germany and Rus sia on the quiz?" "Why not?", asked Wienefeid. "I wasn't rehearsing." -oJ. S. 0. 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