Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teaching has variously been described as a "profession, an art, a predicament, and a disease," noted Arthur B. Perry, headmaster of Milton Academy, last night at the Career Conference on Education.
Striking a less sanguine note, the educator reminded the prospective teachers of such occupational hazards as a continual drain on their energy from dealing with many people, among them "fools" and mixed-up adolescents. He warned the audience at Leverett House of the financial sacrifices and of the foolishness of...
...remainder of the "Guide" contains articles on various business and professional fields written by men who are leaders in them. Dr. Paul Dudley White '08 describes the medical profession; John P. Marquand '15 gives his advice to would-be writers; H. V. Kaltenborn '09 discusses careers in radio and television; and Dean Bundy advises interested students on college teaching...
Green & White. Handsome, grey-haired Carlo Lerici, who says "grave-robbing is the second oldest profession in the world," is an engineer whose family owns a steel mill in Milan. When he became interested in Etruscan tombs, one of his first steps was to get copies of a photographic air...
"We have so much to offer the students," Crooks said, "that not even we know where to start. We do not want to pressure people but the average liberal arts student is just not giving enough thought to his future profession until his final year. That is what we are...