Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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An unsigned review of President Eliot's life of his son Charles Eliot, will lead most readers to go to the book itself to learn more of the noble landscape artist "a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession practiced it happily, and...
Carlton, H A, Chemistry as profession.
In your editorial of this morning you say certain things about a foresters' chances to get training at Harvard which Harvard men who are thinking of entering the profession ought to realize; but as the editorial is also in accord with the common misconception of the forester's business, may...
...study agriculture, chemistry, horticulture and landscape gardening, and if he became a forester would doubtless be glad of his knowledge. But these things will carry him no further than courses on chemistry, botany and biology, however useful, would carry a student of medicine. The tissue and substance of the professional training of the forester, just as in the case of the doctor, are quite distinct and peculiar. I do not believe that we have anybody here who could pretend to give this training, and even if we should secure some one to do the teaching, we should still lack proper...
...should find it hard to rival what Yale, helped by the Pinchot family, is doing already. I cannot see, therefore, how Harvard can profitably pretend to do more than she is really doing now--let anyone study anything which he thinks will help him when he gets to a professional school. HENRY JAMES...