Word: careers
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Maitre Labori, not only an eminent scholar and author, but also the chief counsel in many epoch-making cases, was born on April 18, 1860 in Reims. His preliminary education there was followed by two years of study in Germany, England and finally Paris, where he began his career. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. During his life in Paris he has figured in such cases as the Dreyfus Appeal and the Zola and Humbert cases...
...Transcript comments on Dr. Fitz's career as follows...
...going into political life or the public service? Very few. Hardly a man!" Mr. Adams repeated. "They'll tell you they're going into business, which means into Wall Street, a broker's office, or anywhere and everywhere that they can make money; but politics and a public career are looked at askance. And with reason! The conditions are altogether different...
...order to arouse an interest in the study of topics relating to commerce and industry, and to stimulate those who have a college training to consider the problems of a business career, a committee composed of Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago, chairman; Professor j. b. Clark; Columbia university; Professor Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan; Horace White, Esq., New York City; and Professor Edwin F. Gay, Harvard University, has been enabled through the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner, and Marx, of Chicago, to offer in 1914 four prizes for the best studies in the economic field. the contestants...
...report which attracts our attention and that is the fact that the majority of the men in social service are Sophomores and Freshmen. This condition may be explained as due in most cases to the increasing demands on time made by other activities towards the end of the college career. In some instances it is doubtless due to a frank cooling of ardor for the work after the enthusiasm of the first two years. This we do not regard as an alarming fact. Enthusiasm and sincerity are absolutely essential to real worth in social service. From a man who does...