ECONOMICS AGAIN

The statistics released today on the fields of concentration selected by the class of 1933 show that Economics takes a bigger lead than ever before as the preferential field. Last fall figures on the three upper classes in the college showed the same situation. Is it that Economics has replaced English as the reputed easy field? Or is the desire to be well prepared for business leading men into this now popular branch of education?

Too many men are electing Economics as their field for intensive study under the impression that they will there get the fundamental foundation for a successful business career. Colleges were founded to broaden the young man before he enters on his specialized life work. Thus men who concentrate in Economics to obtain direct preparation for business are under a necessarily narrowing influence and miss what college is supposed to give them.