Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The tendency of certain members of the academic profession to abuse the academic freedom of their classrooms in order to conduct political agitation for a pro-allied economic or military intervention, even to the extent of imputing physical cowardice and lack of integrity to students who do not accept their...
But Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter...
Osler, "has done more good to the medical profession than Samuel Hahnemann."
He got paid very little--and when other people talked of the "profession of journalism" his was the loudest laugh.
True, since the days of the old-time reporter, both men and minds have changed. The reporter of today is a better man than his predecessor. He has to be. He is better-educated, better-paid. Neither he nor his editor can get away with the cheap sensationalism of yesterday...