Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroad employees in a "North country" city, Valleyhead, which is singularly dependent on the line in question for all the necessities of life, stirred by a rabid socialist, strike precipitately. The unyielding owners, as also the rest of the community, for the issue is clearly defined, must eventually capitulate or...
...spend a long life at it, without realizing much more than his limitations and mistakes, and his distance from the ideal. But the main aim of my happy days has been to become a good teacher, just as every architect wishes to be a good architect, and every professional poet strives toward perfection. William Lyon Phelps in the Boston Transcript...
The business of being a waiter in New York is no joke. Last week one member of the profession was precipitated from the ninth story of a hotel by a group of jovial actors singing "Out the window he must go"; and now comes the still more painful report that...
For years the fallacy has persisted that those who enter the profession of teaching must renounce all hopes of a respectable income and serve for the joy of serving. In the Forum for October Mr. Frank Bohn iconoclastically scouts the logic of this attitude. If professors, by leaving the academic...
Directors of college endowment campaigns are developing a technique that rivals the proverbial versatility of the cat-killing profession. There are now a score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible...