Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I could have majored in animal studies atCornell and tracked myself," says Shanies, whoplans to be a "wildlife or exotic animals"veterinarian. "[But] I wanted a well-roundededucation. I don't think I expected Harvard tohave that little knowledge of the profession,though. There really was none."
However, others say they see the challenging courseload as a way for students to gauge their commitment toward the medical profession.
"[It's for] anybody who wanted to take it," Phillips said of Miller's course. "It's definitely not supposed to appeal only to lawyers or to people only in the legal profession."
Such men did not often choose journalism as a career. To most of them, it remained a slightly disreputable profession, attractive to people of less elevated backgrounds--what the press critic A.J. Liebling once called "a refuge for the vaguely talented." But when Luce and Hadden set out in 1923...
Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...