Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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A certain Mr. Billings has recently written an open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his...
But medical schools and business enterprises cannot be looked upon from the same standpoint. A business enterprise is a private affair, undertaken to make money; if it "won't pay," it goes under. A medical school is an educational affair, whether it pays in money or not is a matter...
...addressed: "Is it an honorable thing for you to cut prices, for services at your hospital, 100 per cent less than the regular practitioner charges; less than those your own graduates will have to charge on order to make a loving, or to keep on collegiate terms with other professional?" In proof that his question is founded on fact, he submits various figures going to show that the school is offering to work much cheaper that a professional could, which looks as if the school was "trying to run the veterinary profession of Boston and vicinity into the ground...
The Pall Mall Gazette says: "One of the greatest mathematicians of our time is a lady of one of the highest Russian families, Mme. Kovaleffski, the well-known Russian naturalist. She took the doctor's degree in 1874 at Gottingen, and is said to be enthusiastically devoted to her profession...
"Yes." I said ; 'but are you going to adopt any profession ? Are you going to teach, or start a school, or pratice any particular calling ?"