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...college is to be congratulated on the series of lectures which are now being given in Sever Hall. Railroading, the subject of the series, is yearly growing to be of more importance, and many of our graduates are entering upon it as a means of livelihood...
POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard...
...Adams lectures this evening on railroad management as a profession. Railroading is a means of livelihood which is not generally reckoned among the "professions." But it none the less deserves the attention of college graduates as offering an opportunity for a useful career. The growth of the railroad interests is simply enormous and the business connected with these interests each year assumes more and more the air of a profession. Here a liberal education is just as necessary for success as in any other form of trade and few forms of trade necessitate such a multiplicity of considerations. Many things...
...brought finally before the question, "What shall I be," there are many students who would do well to consider engineering as an increasing means of an honorable and successful career. There is no profession, perhaps, which offers such sure compensation for honest work as this. The means of livelihood which are more ordinarily denominated "professions," are, say what we may about "room at the top," over-crowded. We cannot all be Websters; nor is there a chance that every doctor will rival the fame of a Marian Simms. Many a good mechanic is spoiled in a poor minister. These facts...
...confined to his work, and he is unfortunate who cannot find his enjoyment in this work. While a physician should always have in mind the great object of the profession, - the doing of good to his fellowmen, - there is still to be regarded the aim of earning a livelihood. With this aim the world gets along better than if all men were distinguished philanthropists. Abroad, the profession is under supervision of government. Here the government exercises no control, except in the matter of signing certificates of insanity. It may be better so, but now at least there is much opportunity...