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VOL. XXXVIII.

of Education

APRIL, 1918

No. 8

The Second Intercollegiate Conference on Vocational Opportunities for Women. EDITH ST. CLAIR PALMER, PH. D., WHEATON COLLEGE, NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IGNIFICANT of the growing interest taken by undergraduates in vocational guidance was the Second Intercollegiate Conference on Vocational Opportunities for Women, held on Thursday and Friday, March 7 and 8, at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. Many college students come to the end of their senior year without any very definite notion of the opportunities awaiting them, or of the calling in which they personally have the most chances of making good. There is an increasing unwillingness to "drift into" teaching just because it is the line of least resistance, for students are coming to feel that this involves an injustice to the teaching profession as well as to themselves. It was a consideration of these facts that led Miss Catherine Filene of Boston, then a junior at Wheaton, to conceive the idea of an intercollegiate conference, at which representatives from the different women's colleges should meet for the discussion of their problems and the work they are doing along vocational lines. The enthusiastic support given to the plan by Wheaton students and faculty and the response from other colleges proved that the suggestion was timely, and a year ago in February delegates from nearly all of the larger women's colleges of the East, and many of the smaller ones, gathered at Wheaton for the First Intercollegiate Conference on Vocational Opportunities for Women. The speakers included men and women of national reputation in their chosen fields.

Out of this conference grew the Wheaton College Bureau of Vocational Opportunities, of which Miss Filene is director. In one year much has been accomplished. Research committees have been appointed to collect and make accessible information about various occupations. In this way the foundation of a valuable vocational library has been laid. By means of a card catalogue the bureau knows the vocation to which each student is looking forward, as well as her particular preparation for this line of work. These cards are classified according to vocations, and the students in each group are addressed from time to time by the chairman of the corresponding research committee, who gives them the results of her investigation. The bureau is also making an effort to get in touch with openings for college women in the business and professional world. Wheaton is in no sense a vocational college. The bureau was organized to meet the need felt in all women's colleges for a closer correlation of the activities inside and outside academic halls. The advisory board of the bureau includes President Samuel Valentine Cole of Wheaton College, Mr. Meyer Bloomfield of Boston, Chairman of the Industrial Service Commission of the U. S. Shipping Board; Mr. A. Lincoln Filene of William Filene's Sons Company, Boston; Hon. Frederick P. Fish of Boston; and Miss Emilie J. Hutchinson, Manager of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, New York City.

The conference this year numbered among its speakers many men and women of note in their respective professions. Much prominence was given on the program to a discussion of the ways in which women can render the greatest service under the present war conditions. The opportunities for women in Y. W. C. A. war work were presented by Miss Caroline B. Dow, Dean of the National Y. W. C. A. Training School, New York City, while Mrs. George R. Fearing, Jr., Chairman of the Greater Boston Women's Committee cooperating with the War Work Council of the National Y. M. C. A., told of the help that can be given by women in Y. M. C. A. war work. Miss Julia C. Lathrop, the chief of the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, in speaking on the subject, "Women in Government Service," emphasized mainly the departments in which women are most needed to render patriotic service in the present crisis. Miss Emilie J.

Hutchinson, the manager of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations in New York City, followed the same general plan in her talk on "The Newer Demands for College Women", only she did not limit herself to opportunities in government service. She even urged students to go onto the farms this summer to relieve the acute situation caused by scarcity of labor. In fact, the key note of service struck by President Cole in his address of welcome recurred again and again in all the sessions of the conference. In the opening session the subject of vocational guidance in its more general aspects was treated by Mr. Roy Willmarth Kelly, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance, Division of Education, of Harvard University, who spoke on "The Relation of the College of Liberal Arts to Vocational Guidance," and Mr. Frank V. Thompson, Assistant Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, in charge of Vocational Guidance, and President of the National Vocational Guidance Association, whose subject was "The Vocational Counselor."

The Friday afternoon session was devoted to a consideration of opportunities for women in the business world. Addresses were given by Miss Josephine Sutton, of William Filene's Sons Company, Boston, who told of "Opportunities in a Department Store", Miss Mary B. Gilson, Superintendent of the Employment and Service Departments in The Clothcraft Shops, Cleveland, Ohio, whose subject was "The Employment Manager", and Mr. Henry P. Kendall, President of the Lewis Manufacturing Company, Norwood, Mass., who spoke on "Opportunities for Executive Work in Industry." The subject of opportunities for women in the field of journalism was presented Thursday evening by Mrs. Eva vom Baur Hansl, who was formerly with "The New York Sun." The program also included among the speakers Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Washington, and Mr. Thomas K. Cory, General Manager of William Filene's Sons Company, Boston, but unexpected and pressing duties prevented their attendance at the conference.

An exceedingly interesting and profitable session was held Friday morning, when the delegates told how the placement work is managed in their respective colleges. Reports were given by representatives from the following colleges and universities:

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