Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This remains true. Perhaps the majority of those who "make good" in the writing profession in America are men and women without academic advantages. In a measure our literature shows it. It lacks the quality for which we have no English term, perhaps because we have so little conception of...
The writing mind with the surest and steadiest quality is, I venture to believe, that which ripens slowly in the wind and air and sunshine which naturally comes its way. It does not admit impatiences, or rebellion to discipline, or too fierce a love for the purple patches of life...
Will you be so kind as to reprint the following letter addressed to members of the Senior Class, which was printed without the signature in your issue of April 12. I ask this favor because when the letter was printed before the headlines might give the impression that experience in...
...great university is credited with having graduated seventy men from its course in oil geology; at least three colleges are specializing in this science; the columns of a certain reputable trade journal contain professional cards of over fifty individuals and firms who specialize in oil geology; and the number has lately been increasing. Contrast these circumstances with the fact that the United States Geological Survey has calculated that over forty percent of the petroleum of the United States has already been taken from the ground and the great majority of our known oil fields have been discovered. It will...
All of these men treated the subject differently, but all came to conclusions that had many things in common; that for satisfaction to be got out of a profession, the Christian ministry is unsurpassed; that for joy in accomplishing things and in gratitude for things accomplished the ministry is the...