COLLEGE MEN IN RETAIL TRADE.

It is only within the last 25 years that college men have turned in large numbers to business life on graduation, and even at the present time few of them engage in retail trade. Though in recent graduating classes at Harvard more than one-half of the members have announced their intention of going into "business," they usually enter manufacturing, wholesale trading, or some form of banking. The evolution of the department store, involving the centralization under a single management of many operations of trade and manufacturing, is a development of the present which has raised the retail business to the dignity of a profession demanding education and careful training.

This evening in the Union there will be a description of "Retail Trade as a Career for College Graduates" by Mr. Robert C. Ogden, for many years a partner in one of the greatest retail firms of the country and the manager of one of its large branches. Men who have not chosen their occupations and who feel no inclination toward the so called learned professions, should find his lecture distinctly useful.