Word: careers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...silently and secretly but still forcibly. They are benefits which, though unseen, are yet almost key-notes of life, as the force of gravity is the key-note of the life of the universe. To them we may also add the sociableness and friendships, always attendant upon a college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar...
William Winter has written a short book on Henry Irving. The preface declares it to be a record of Henry Irving's professional career upon the New York stage, and a study of his acting...
...power of rapid thought and coolness, which are necessary for the study and practice of law, being two different things. In such a country as our own this profession offers great advantages to one who has political aspirations. Almost every one who wishes to engage in a political career thinks it necessary to enter it by means of the law. The financial and social inducements are also strong, not that every lawyer gets rich from the practice of law, but it opens so many avenues by which wealth may come. On the other hand there are objections...
...circumstances always found in a purely financial pursuit. But is this true? Has it not been found by trial that the more a man cultivates studious habits, the more he can understand situations that, although irksome, may yet be necessary and unavoidable? Many college educated men take up mercantile careers and are disgusted to find that they are expected to do work only fit for boys of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and unfortunately they show their disgust by assuming airs superior to their situations, by leaving before they have given business a fair trial, and by condemning...
...above learning the rudimentary duties of business life. The failure of so many college educated men in business may be attributed to this foolish pride of age, this refusal to do what must be learned by all, young and old, who intend to make a business career successful. In trade, as in the professions, no power is stronger than that of a well educated...