MANY COLLEGE GRADUATES IN ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY

College men and university presidents who are interested in statistics as to the distribution and influence of college alumni in industry and the world of affairs will find much material of interest in a recent investigation which has been made by the Western Electric Company, Inc. This Company is the oldest manufacturer and distributor of electrical apparatus in the world. As the manufacturing unit for the Bell Telephone System, the Western Electric Company has long been concerned with complicated problems of apparatus development and quantity manufacturer. Its roll of employees in this country shows students from 214 American institutions and some thirty-four European universities. All told, there are 1,645 college graduates among the 48,000 workers on the Company's payroll.

The University of Illinois heads the list with seventy-six graduates. Pennsylvania comes next with seventy-four, Massachusetts Institute of Technology with sixty-five, and the University of Michigan and Cornell tie for fourth place with sixty graduates each. The University of Wisconsin is represented by fifty-six graduates, Columbia by fifty-one, Armour Institute of Technology by forty-two, the University of Minnesota by thirty-four and Ohio State by twenty-two. Stevens Institute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie Tech and Cooper Union are each represented by about twenty men.

The old institutions, where arts college work is still of major importance, are almost as well represented as are the technical schools. Thirtyeight from Harvard, twenty-nine from Dartmouth, and about twenty each from Yale, Amherst, Pennsylvania and Williams are concerned with the business and manufacturing interests of the Western Electric Company.

The entrance of college women into industry is marked by the names of Barnard, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Hunter, Smith and others on the list of alumnae with this Company.

The thirty-four representatives of European universities come from all the large technical schools of Europe. From the University of Petrograd, and Anatolia in Turkey on the east to London and Manchester, the Arts and Metiers of France, the College of North Wales and the University of Ireland on the West,—from Copenhagen, Christiania and Stockholm on the north to the Naval University of Genoa on the south,—the technical schools of Europe have contributed to the solution of the design and manufacturing problems of the Bell System's telephonic communication.