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Show Filipino Students Told to Learn Trades in U. S. Manila. The Philippine government will henceforth tell students who are sent to the United States what courses to study. An oversupply of physicians physi-cians and lawyers In the Islands has led to a shortage of technically trained college graduates. In view of the big demand for technologists tech-nologists and experts In the Industrial arts they will be permitted to study only ttsh, meat and vegetable canning and other such industries. Heretofore government students, or penslonniles, as they are known locally, local-ly, were free to choose their cureers. In most Instances they took up law, medicine, education and similar academic aca-demic courses. I'pon returning to the Philippines they found difficulty In obtaining ob-taining work, since those professions were crowded. Muny of them returned to the United Slates, thus yielding the Philippine government no return for the money spent for their education. |