Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently an assistant in a large Comparative Literature course complacently remarked that he made himself as inaccessible as possible by posting no office hours except after classes and by refusing to allow a telephone in his lodgings. This man draws his salary from the Corporation for no other duties than...
It is high time that these inaccessible assistants realize that their jobs are to assist. What though they be bored with oft-repeated questions and that ignorance of a narrow field which naturally arises from an intellect whose interests are necessarily broader? They are paid to overcome this distasteful boredom...
Atop this socially conscious volcano is the uneasy seat of President Frederick Bertrand Robinson. Dr. Robinson never tires of asserting that a talented person can succeed equally in any field of endeavor. In support of this theory he boasts that he takes up something new every year - painting, etching, cello...
Umpires, like thieves and executioners, lead extrasocial lives. In public, they are customarily hated by the players whose doings they adjudicate, scorned by the crowds who watch them. In private, they follow the same itinerary as baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the...
The real backbone of the legal profession, Ransom declared, does not lie in New York or Boston or Washington. It is not in any of the larger metropolises, but in the smaller cities with a population of under 50,000. If there is anything worthwhile being developed in this country...