Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mental, moral, or physical education of its students. Unfortunately, he goes only for four years and is expected at the end of that time to know his profession. With most other professions a student spends the same four years as an undergraduate, and three or four more in a professional school. This does not mean, however, that a cadet at West Point divides the four years between undergraduate and graduate work. It means more nearly that he gets little or no graduate work, and begins only after receiving his commission, through his own ambition or the guidance of older officers...
"A photographer never knows what is going to happen; he is doing something different every minute, and on never tell when he will be called out on some important job. The variety in the work makes it seem more like a bobby than a profession, and many men have found...
This evening at 7.45 o'clock in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House, the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D., Professor of Homiletics at the Union Theological Seminary of New York and minister of the First Presbyterian Church of that city, will speak on "The Ministry as a Vocation." Since the...
"There are just two requisites for a man intending to enter the ministry", declared the Reverend Alexander Mann, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, to the Freshman meeting in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "To most people the profession of the ministry lies in a category by itself, only...
"A minister has got to be an all round human being for he, of all people in the community, touches most often the current of human affairs. Although the ministry is not well paid and wealth in that profession may be regarded more as a disgrace than a blessing, there...