Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advisability of colleges establishing courses which would have a direct bearing in educating men who intend to make this their life work. It seems to be the universal opinion of practical newspaper men that the only way to get any insight into their profession is by an apprenticeship on a paper, and that it is impracticable for colleges to attempt to give any special instruction. Of course the details of office work can only be learned in this...
Experience has shown that however willing the average man may be to concede that some preliminary training is necessary for a successful blacksmith, or a good carpenter, he could not possibly be convinced that newspaper writing requires any such apprenticeship...
...state.' It is vaguely intimated that at times he seems to consider his high-backed chair a throne, and the necks of his meek contemporaries adjustable footstools. It is hinted that the executive whip is cracked with a facility that could only have been acquired by a prolonged apprenticeship at a German court. If such is the condition of things in the mysterious precincts of the faculty room it may be that the apprentice is acting on the principle that a little royalty is a dangerous thing and is therefore drinking deep draughts of sovereignty's ambition till an appreciative...
...crisis? How much do they really begin life when they sally forth with their diploma in hand? In every valedictory oration which will be delivered the same story is told; 'they have girded on their armor and are going into actual battle;' they 'have served their apprenticeship and are ready to take up the labor of life.' Now, if the battle and labor of life mean, which they generally do, to earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even if a lad's father have money enough to keep him from the necessity...
...Columbia law students are endeavoring to induce the legislature to make a special exception in their favor in the law which requires every one admitted to the New York bar to serve a three years' apprenticeship...