Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It took me until I had earned my Ph.D., reached middle age and read your Essay "The Big Puzzle: Who Makes What and Why" [June 13] to decide to desert a profession I'm good at and one I love-teaching.
Author Huie, who at first promoted Ray's Raoul story in a series of magazine articles, later concluded in a book, He Slew the Dreamer, that Ray had misled him. Huie decided that Ray had acted alone in killing King. But what had motivated Ray? Huie, who dug into...
In fact. Laetrilemania seems to be only one facet of a broader rebellion. The signs of revolt are everywhere-from the refusal of motorists to buckle their seat belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order...
...prove any particular theory about these people and do not have any ironclad generalizations to offer about pre-professionalism at Harvard. But some conclusions could be reached about the different fields. Students interested in medicine, for example, on the whole made their career choices much earlier than others. Many pre-meds cited their high school biology and chemistry teachers as important influences in their eventual decisions. Others with fathers who are doctors had favorite childhood impressions of their fathers' jobs. Potential lawyers decided somewhat later than the pre-meds about their choice of profession. Some of these students insist that...
Young likes to tell stories of the 1960s when street people used to make a profession of hanging out in the Yard. It seems that there was this one group of freshmen from Wiggles worth which was absolutely obsessed with street people. They simply loved to bring hoards of them...