Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Manhattan's great Memorial Hospital for Cancer & Allied Diseases was founded in 1884, cancer was not only hopeless but unmentionable. Memorial Hospital was the first institution in the U. S. to devote itself solely to the study and treatment of cancer. In 1926 Edward S. Harkness donated $250...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he...
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of respectable parents, assumed the name "Móliere" when he joined an unrespectable troupe of vagabond players. For 13 years he mimed through the provinces, died at 51, coughing and spitting blood, less than an hour after playing the title role in his Le Malade...
In general the scale of popularity agrees with that last year and the year before. Medicine always assumes a leading role, followed closely by law, the teaching profession, and business.
President Lowell explained his idea of treating business as a profession and devoting a school to it just as schools are devoted to law and medicine. "Business is the oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions," he said.