Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's grand old man is also in a very potent sense America's grand old man, and the fact that his eminence and services have been especially identified with the educational life of America renders him no less great or typically representative of our nation than might have been...
...unbroken stretch of eight years would not prove too appalling for the ordinary student, there might be many advantages. The present system, which completes a four-year, academic unit, before beginning with professional training suits very well the needs of those who do not intend to enter a profession, and of those who do not know which profession they will follow. But the eight-year plan includes a preliminary general foundation equally necessary for every profession; and moreover allows plenty of time in which to select some particular one. In this way it has at least all of the advantages...
The book is written primarily with a view to being used as a text in a school of journalism. The newspaper profession nowadays requires men with specialized training, just as does the law, or medicine, or any other profession. Perhaps it might not be too irrelevant to remark, in passing...
Of particular interest to the layman are the chapters on "An Analysis of News", "The Copyreader at Work", "Makeup", and "An Outline of Newspaper Routine", for, without being too highly technical, they answer many of his questions about the how and the why of the profession that makes possible the...
In journalism it is still possible it would seem, for an individual to create an institution. And as such the profession should draw many from one of the few institutions that graduates individuals.