Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The most obvious element of attractiveness in the ministry is its stability as a continuing function of society. It rests back upon fundamental and essentially unchanging elements of human experience; it has the immense initial advantage of springing from, and appealing to, one of the central instincts of the human...
Now a profession so fundamental in its nature, so exacting in its demands, and so high and imaginative in its rewards, is obviously not one to which large numbers of men, in any particular day, are likely to be drawn. There are quite enough men now in the Christian ministry...
Men possessing any of these qualifications are often in demand for one or two years, even when their record is not high and when they do not expect to make teaching their profession.
...should the prospective business or professional man be content to leave active politics to lawyers. Modern public life has in it many men who are not of the legal profession; politics profits by the participation of men of varied points of view. And as regards training, it may again be emphasized that not special subjects so much as a general grasp of life problems and the power to think are the requisites. Good work in almost any department will develop them...
Professor Caullery has won high honors in his profession, having received an LL.D. from St. Andrews' University in Scotland, and having been made a member of the Linnean Society of London.