Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mendell and Tad Jones of Yale seem to be on the right track in proposing to limit the power of the most purely professional element, the coaches. Modern football tends to assume the aspect of a contest of skill between two experts who use college boys as their instruments of play instead of chessmen or cards. At Yale they are not talking of keeping the coaches away from the game and letting the players play it for themselves. This would, of course, give an advantage to the older and larger institutions with a longer and sounder athletic tradition...
All these difficulties are typical of the kind always volunteered by the doubting Thomases and the Godfrey Glooms. Once the theatre is established and has begun to build up a reputation, a great part of these difficulties will vanish, removing the only clouds from a field of limitless possibilities. There...
The talk will be illustrated by moving pictures and stereopticon slides. Mr. Furlong, who is an artist by profession, has led a life of remarkable interest and activity. His biography is a series of exciting adventures, not only in the Western section of the United States, but in all parts...
In a brief resume of the conditions surrounding a boy with any theatrical tallent in present day institutions of learning, Mr. Eaton gave a graphic description of the experiences of the average youthful dramatic enthusiast in his struggle to gain an education along the line of his chosen profession". Troubles...
For a few, scholarship is a profession; for the rest, a lively and keen interest in thing intellectual ought to be a hobby. It is not.