Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON gives a list of the qualifications for those intending to enter politics as a profession but he fails to mention the advantages and attractions of such a career for the college graduate. At present it is decidedly not the thing for the young man to be a professional politician. Statistics on the Harvard class of 1910, by Stuart Chase show that politics is almost as unpopular as the ministry...
It is perfectly true that a knowledge of American History and a legal education are decided assets to the politician, but a thick skin is even more valuable. A profession such as this which is tainted by the tactics of its less honorable members requires a certain imperviousness to misconceptions...
Perhaps the unpleasant contacts of the early stages of a political apprenticeship discourage such ambitions or perhaps the seeds of indifference and cynicism have been too well planted in the American mind to shake them out of their attitude of laissez faire towards the management of public affairs. A more...
...Office, which is now in charge of J. F. Dwinell '02 was created by the Harvard Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs a year ago last September for the purpose of aiding graduating men and alumni of Harvard College to obtain employment after graduation. Men connected with the professional schools, as well as those who are entering the teaching profession are not served by Dwinell's office but are aided by their own schools...
Arranged particularly for amateurs, the course has to do with the recent accomplishments in the field of Aviation and the expansion of commercial sir transport. This development in the science of Aviation has brought an extra-ordinary demand for such instruction in popular aeronautics as may be needed by anyone...