Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with...
...intentions. Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their own enterprises. They inter fere in the conduct of business and meddle in professional matters and still wonder why their hospitals do not function efficiently and why they have difficulty in securing the right type of personnel. "The remedy is obvious but not always easily applied. Boards of trustees should determine policies and concern themselves chiefly in employing a great, competent executive who can be trusted...
Yet in education one dare go no great distance, leaning upon theory alone. That must be the criticism, in the large, of Dr. Kirkpatrick's effort. He is a firm believer in the eventual effectiveness of democracy. "Academic democracy," he states, "is here used to indicate that type of school...
One understands that new teachers, subordinate teachers, must be young teachers; that the most capable young men are not always attracted to teaching as such; that thus men of calibre become teacher only on the side. Undoubtedly, the various employing authorities meet this attitude among prospective employees. Undoubtedly these authorities...
"I have never had my hands manicured, so I am unable to speak with authority on the damosels engaged in that profession; they touch nothing that they do not adorn; but . . . should a mediaeval warrior suddenly appear in a modern barbershop, and see a fat man reclining in a chair...