Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Springfield Republican of Monday contains an article on the Harvard Law School, full of interest for present and past members of that school, and especially valuable as a "pointer" for all who intend to enter the legal profession.
After giving an excellent description of the new Law School building the writer goes on to say : "It does not require a legal mind to see that with the beginning of the next academic year the would-be member of the bar is to receive his training in Coke and...
The remarks in regard to this method to which were made by President Eliot in his annual report, are quoted and then the writer continues : "It will thus be seen that the whole influence of the school is against 'cheap' lawyers. 'A noble profession nobly filled' is dinned into the...
First, as regards the profession itself. Nearly every skilled occupation in our time involves principles and facts that have been investigated, and are taught outside the profession. To the medical man are given courses of chemistry, physiology and so on. Hence, to be completely equipped for your professional work you must repair to the teachers of those tributary departments of knowledge. The requirement, however, is not absolute; it admits of being evaded. Your professional teachers ought to master these outside subjects, and give you just so much of them as you need, and no more, which would be an obvious...
Thus, I apprehend, the strictly professional uses of general knowledge fail to justify the grammar school and the art curriculum. Something, indeed, may still be said for the higher grades of professional excellence, and for introducing improved methods in the practice of the several crafts, for which wider outside studies lend their aid. This, however, is not enough; inventors are the exception. In fact, the ground must be widened, and include, secondly, the life beyond the profession. We are citizens of a self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve...