Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"My feeling was that it was ridiculous to train people for a profession you don't let them into," Hiatt argues. But she decided to go anyway, with the intention of working actively toward the goal of women's ordination. Hiatt, a canonical resident of Pennsylvania diocese, was the first...
But a composite description of the average student on leave, compiled from interviews with House tutors, reveals that a frustrated junior, most likely one who declared interest in a profession--particularly medicine--in freshman year, is most prone to fleeing the campus before his term is up.
Both women attribute a good deal of their success to contacts made through volunteer organizations and civic committees. "Because of my past experience I had no problem presiding," says Hance. "Through volunteering, I had to learn discipline, work habits, and a broad knowledge of the community. As a volunteer you...
...vice presidency. Some CIA officials called him "a pol," "a hack" or "a p.r. man." Said one officer: "It's understandable why the President couldn't pick someone from the profession itself, but did he really have to pick someone who is so much the opposite of a professional...
Such delights came less frequently as the nation's colleges moved through the storms of the '60s. Trilling spoke out bitterly against the "ideology of irrationalism" and the idea that knowledge can be attained through "intuition, inspiration, revelation." Denouncing the pressures to hire more blacks and women as...