Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taussig '79, Professor of Economics in the University, reached the conclusion that the growth of graduate schools will either force colleges out of existence or necessitate the adoption of a shorter undergraduate course. "America", stated Professor Taussig, "is unique in the long duration of schooling precedent to a professional career. With four years in college, two to four years in a graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting a career is 30. In many universities all over the country there is a tendency...
Actress Eva Le Gallienne spoke for her profession. Sophie Irene Loeb, able lobbyist for social welfare legislation, gave a rousing account of herself in laugh-getting colloquialisms. Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune, "first woman reporter in the Senate gallery,"was allotted four minutes to relate...
Shows have been failures before the day of Actors' Equity, with quite different sequels. A thrifty manager would often gather up the last of the waning gate receipts and catch the midnight flyer for Manhattan, leaving ingenue and heavy to learn milking. But Actors' Equity, the protective union of the...
Following his graduation, Dr. Peabody made rapid strides in his chosen profession. He was at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1908 and 1909 in the position of assistant resident physician, and the following year he was made a fellow in pathology at the Johns Hopkins University. During 1911...
...still a comparatively young man. In his fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty of his character was made even more clear to all who knew...