Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural life." This remark, made by a Boston attorney in private conversation the other day, is interestingly borne out by the statement just published of the average yearly carnings of the members of the Harvard Law School class of 1905. The report, covering 119 men, shows an average professional income of $18,634. Moreover, a close analysis shows that this high level is act only mathematically but practically sound as a measure of the "average" earnings of Harvard-trained lawyers in their twentieth year of practice. Although there are three men earning over $100,000 and seventeen over...
...after gaining such training as they may, formal admission to the bar. Beyond question the real income which actually awaits many of the less competent and less highly trained men will never rise as high as the $18,634 average just now reported. We doubt very much whether the professional earnings of all the men at the Boston bar average half that amount. But there are shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them...
Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by...
"Pay one hundred professors a minimum salary of $30,000 a year and the entire profession will soon demand justice of the public .... They should receive from $30,000 to $50,000 annually. The tendency should be, unless the cost of living falls off sharply, to pay the higher sum...
Doctors customarily treat other doctors without a fee. Now and then some successful practitioner, deluged by a host of ailing colleagues, has revolted against this inroad on his time, has rendered bills, has lost much of his free practice. In Germany, some of the profession are now in active conflict...