Word: professionally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Moliere disliked doctors is only too evident. He criticised the false elements of the contemporary science of medicine and, being a realist, he urged that the doctors were merely theorists, basing their cures on material found in books rather than on actual experience. He also had a number of...
As business gradually grows into a science and a profession, the value of special training grows apace. It is still possible for a young man to "grow up with the business" or to manage a successful business enterprise with no special training. But as in the professions, the long-run...
"The many business men that were consulted by the Harvard authorities said that they had constant difficulty in getting men who were qualified to become their executive officers. As they explained the matter, the trouble was that most young men who started to grow up with the business got caught...
"That the Harvard School is fulfilling its aim-- to teach the profession of business by scientific methods applied to live business material--is made evident by several signs. Its increasing student body, numbering now, in its sixth year, 109, has every year included a notable representation of active business men...
"Harvard seems to have found the men, the methods, and the beginning of notable achievement in making the profession of business more scientific and more efficient--in bringing business nearer to its proper place as an applied science."