Word: professional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Journalist, from which so many of our exchanges have been clipping, offers some very appropriate suggestions under the heading, "The pay of Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is...
But granting that the two systems are equally good so far as quality goes, the spirit of instruction must be taken into account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always...
Mr. Sargent spoke before a large audience last night in behalf of elocution as a collegiate course of study. He began by giving some statistics of the study of elocution in this country, showing that his art had already gained a firm foothold, and was rapidly advancing to the position...
Mr. Franklyn Sargent, Director of the New York School of Acting, lectures this evening in Sanders on "elocution in a collegiate course of study." Mention has already been made of the value of this lecture if heard with an idea to learn, but even from the standpoint of entertainment it...
The old Puritans believed that the man who had no regular profession was doomed to perdition. To them leisure looked like the larceny of other people's time. Mr. Quincy was one of the first gentlemen of leisure. His stories are most charming; his letters are models in their way...