Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. It was an understatement. As a philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy...
Taking another cue from Hollywood, Houston trains his singing actors to master the delayed timing of gags (known to the profession as "takes and double takes"). Bob Hope is his model. Says Houston: "Our shows come out as plays with music." And tired businessmen have hailed them as "opera for...
U.S. educators heard tough talk from their Government this week. Gathered in Washington for a four-day Institute on Education and the War, 600 leaders of the nation's schools and colleges were directed to train their pupils in military fundamentals from grade school to college. Manpowerman Paul V...
A Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor...
Last Word. In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer."