Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apprenticeship to the sort of short story Miss Ferber has written-often slightly plotted, delicate character sketches in which the drama is of emotions rather than events-is splendid training for the writing of a novel. Compare So Big with Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29). Miss Hurst's book has passages of genius. Analyzed, however, it is a collection of sketches around a single theme. So Big, however, is in no sense a book written by an author wedded to short story technique. It is a fine novel. It moves steadily through its technical parts and its emotion value...
...early life in Nebraska, where she was graduated from the State University in 1895. She has been both journalist and teacher. For a time she was an associate editor of McClure's Magazine. Then, quite deliberately, she began her career of writing, after many years of apprenticeship, and has, as deliberately, progressed...
...English medical schools are concentrated mainly in London and are almost invariably the intimate outgrowth of hospitals. For many years apprenticeship as a " dresser " or " clinical clerk " was the approved method of training for the medical profession. Special emphasis was placed on bedside instruction, conducted by the staff physicians of the hospitals. "Walking the hospitals," i. e., making the ward rounds, to which American students are introduced but sparingly until their interne years, became the favorite sport of British medical students. Laboratory and lecture work in the British schools was weak until recent years, but the great hospitals...
...these fields, at least, are fairly well covered by groups apart from the University, yet closely bound to its life. These fields are journalism in its various phases, and advertising. Candidates for any of the publications learn the tricks of the trade, and have an apprenticeship which gives them a foretaste of the occupation, from which they may judge whether or not they wish to make it their life work...
...matriculation. But we may answer than in England now, in the same universities, a student thinks nothing of continuing long past twenty-one; he labors under no sense of duty which says that date is "as late as he ought to begin the study of his profession or the apprenticeship for his career." This American frenzy for an early plunge into life, though necessary in many cases, is a principle of doubtful merit. Harvard should at least ponder well before encouraging it so frankly...