Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To follow Hope's boffola performance would be difficult for any man, but the President of the U.S. rose manfully to the occasion-and delighted his audience. "Politics is an astonishing profession," he said gravely. "It has permitted me to go from being an obscure lieutenant serving under General...
Its Binghamton branch, under the leadership of Dr. Raymond S. McKeeby, 49, a former flight surgeon, passed the word on Project MORE through the high schools, got hundreds of students to sign up for skull sessions on doctoring as a profession. From the most interested and promising, the doctors chose...
...basic conflict, which disturbs both students and Faculty, is that scientists' first loyalty must be to their profession rather than to the university. The scientist-professor's audience is entirely professional. He competes for recognition with full-time government and industry researchers. He can have little more allegiance to Harvard and to teaching than an obstetrician who teaches a few hours a week at a medical school...
...gime, in his own time he had something of the avant-garde about him, even a touch of the enfant terrible. He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French. He had the ruling-class horror of being a professional, yet in his amateur way could claim with much truth that "no profession comes amiss to me." He was a printer, an innovating builder, an M.P., an antiquary, a historian, a novelist, a playwright, a collector...
Whatever the reasons, lack of faculty action in the New York controversy is lamentable, not merely because Harvard's independence gives its faculty members certain obligations, but because the New York issue is one in which a letter from Cambridge might have some effect. University officials in New York are...