Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precarious Profession. With no noticeable difficulties, the Egans breezed through nine categories-Great Art & Artists. Movies, Ancient History, Sherlock Holmes, Food & Cooking, Shakespeare, Spelling, Boxing & Jazz. They had made up their minds to quit as soon as they hit $16,000, but when they found that the $32,000 question...
Jim Egan got his education at Hartford's Trinity College, Harvard and Oxford on scholarships. He began reading during the Depression because "it was the cheapest pleasure around." He hopes to come out of the show with enough money to take his wife to Europe on his first vacation...
THE MAN IN MY GRAVE, by Wilson Tucker (250 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), is not much of a mystery after the first chapters, but it is notable for an unusual hero and some fascinating details about the unpleasant profession of burking.* B. G. Brooks is a mild-mannered little investigator for...
In an effort to stimulate interest in the teaching profession, President Pusey has appointed a special Committee on Teaching for Harvard and Radcliffe College. The ten-member group will consider the Colleges' role in interesting able men and women in teaching careers at every level.
All committee members contacted emhasized the need for impressing upon prospective teachers the fact that there are many financially rewarding openings available. Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe, echoed the general feelings of the group, saying that "some potentially good teachers lack confidence. We must show them...