Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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In his recent address before the New York Harvard Club, President Eliot remarked that the clerical profession had been "deeply injured by beneficial endowments," and that although this profession had been more generously treated in the way of pecuniary aid than any other, in it is "the greatest dearth of...
This is but the expression of an opinion that has been long since advanced by Adam Smith, but the fact that it comes from the president of a university that is noted for the liberality of its scholarship system gives it a new and greater interest. It is generally thought...
Says the Boston Journal, in its Current Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a...
"Carlyle," said Mr. Hale the other evening, in his address on the "Choice of a Profession," "Carlyle led the young men of his day out into a wilderness, and there he left them, because he himself did not know on which side lay the Promised Land."
The chosen profession may be from thousands of duties near at hand, but it must always be a duty. The man must decide not on "what I like," but "in what will I be the most useful." Nor must any liberal profession be considered over-crowded. In every one, as...