UNIVERSITY MEN'S CAREERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 5, 7 January 1929, Page 4

UNIVERSITY MEN'S CAREERS.

HEAD OF LONDON COLLEGE.

GIVES HINTS FOR STUDENTS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, October 9

There is probably no more perplexing question at the moment for young men who are attending University L-nntsi'-tlian their choice of a calling. It is urgent all the world over, and there Iμ. no doubt that more guidance should be afforded than 13 generally available. For that reason the remarks of Sir Gregory Foster, Provost of University College, London, addressing the students yesterday at the opening of the new session deserve a larger audience than that to which they were addressed. Sir Gregory sa vs: —

"I have been a little distressed this year with the answers I have received from the freshmen as to what they were looking to when they had finished course here. There was only one man who eaid, 'I am going out to the Dominions! , "That spirit of adventure is extraordinarily lacking. Mothers and fathers, we know, are to blame for it. Single sons and single daughters are to blame for it. But if we are to maintain that great inheritance of our Empire we must be prepared to go out in larger numbers to the Dominions and distant parts of the Empire. "In my recent visit to South Africa," said Sir Gregory, "I was impressed by the remarkable openings in that country for men and women of energy and ability, with trained minds ready to adapt themselves to the life and circumstances of that great Dominion. I hope that all of you who have still any uncertainty about your future careers will think of that as a great avenue for work—for teaching or industrial applications, for law, for the church, for medicine, and the like."

"Our entry this year," added Sir Gregory, "confirms the report of the Imperial Conference. There are very few students, outside the medicals, taking the biological course."

Calling attention to the report of the University Grants Committee, he said: "There are too many chemists who are ohemists and nothing else. The result is that there are a lot of them out of work, but for a chemist who adds to hie knowledge either engineering, or agriculture, or bio-ohemi*try, or botany, there are numerous appointment* waiting.

"I am continually in the position of feting unable to fill appointment* that I want to fill. I have now in my hands the nomination of two rery interesting appointments—appointments of the kind that I hope will increase. The man who proposes to make them is a financier of world-wide business. He said to me: 1 want two of your young graduates. I don't mind what faculty they are in, provided they have well-balanced adaptable minds.'

"I nominated two men. They are two Mb uen > &"* are so firm set in flfeemflr? that they declined the offer of my friend. If there are any two graduate* her* attracted by the offer let them send thttr earn** to m«."