Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profession of teaching, an advanced degree has become almost a prerequisite. This passion for the mere letters of a degree is what William James once dubbed the "Ph.D. Octopus". Since his remark was written, a saner view has come into practice, but preference in filling professional positions still goes to the men who can boast of this advanced training...
As a profession, the ministry has fewer and fewer recruits, when more than any other it needs them. A student who admits that he is studying theology stamps himself as "different", out of sympathy with his generation, to be let alone. From the undergraduate point of view, to wish deliberately...
The protest that has ensued is unwarranted. Lecturing has come to be an honorable profession, and at present it vies with baseball and the movies as a source of fame and fortune. A glance at the year's harvest of lecture-tour celebrities will carry conviction: Margot Asquith, Philip Gibbs...
It is relatively easy for a man who has made his choice of a career or a profession to direct his course in college so as to fit himself for his life work. But for that large number who go to college for a general education and who, besides preparing...
"There is no profession that gives a man just starting work better training than does journalism," declared Mr. Edgar A. Guest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and, even if I had a college diploma. I would not exchange it for the two and a half years I...