Word: professionally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Politics in this country is a rather precarious profession. As such, perhaps, it is not to be recommended, unless a man has plenty of time, and independent means. The greatest drawback is the man who is in politics for his pocket and not for public service: in other words the...
...MacCracken, in his inaugural address yesterday as president of Vassar, called attention to the concentration and purpose with which students in professional and trades schools pursue their studies. Evidence of this is afforded every day in the University. The seriousness and industry of law and business school men is often a revelation to the undergraduate who is bent on enjoying his "four years' loaf." President MacCracken attributes this spirit to self-interest: "The trade, the profession, the definite pursuit, beckon instinctively every hour...
In general, the term is used to denote something distinct from a command of the tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at...
...study a profession must, if he is serious, master that subject well; why, then, it may be asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly to getting as wide an acquaintance with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone who has had practical experience. The mind that deals only with elementary work in many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire a firm grasp of any of them. The smatterer on leaving college is a smatterer. He has never learned...
The question of a coach for the fall production has not as yet been decided, but the management has been considering several eligible members of the profession and a definite announcement will probably be made within a few weeks