Colleges were rushing class after class forth with just his kind of education, and there was no employment for them.
These young men, having no employment, would get together in groups and discuss their respective conditions.

Some were in love and desired to marry.

Others were married and desired to support their wives in a creditable way.

Others desired to acquire a competence.

Some had aged parents who had toiled hard to educate them and were looking to them for support.