Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Railroad Management as a Profession for College Graduates. Mr. Charles F. Adams, Jr. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m.
Mr. 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...
At nine minutes after seven last evening Sever 11 was filled with an audience of residents of Cambridge and students eager to hear Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., lecture on "The Management of Railroads as a Profession for College Graduates."
In the Union Pacific Railway, smaller than the Pennsylvania and other roads, there are 5,000 miles of track running through 6 states and 4 territories. It has a capital of $270,000,000 in securities, an income of $25,000,000 a year. It carries in a year 7...
But it makes little difference what profession a man takes, as long as he is not a round egg in a square hole. Be the man who, when he is told to do a thing, goes and does it. Have temperance, perseverance, self-control. Remember Horace's "Ne cede malis...