Word: professionals
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...sure they felt no Zeitgeist in them when they labored up the last snow slope to the summit. They were both very straightforward men. Tenzing was a professional mountaineer from the Sherpa community of the Everest foothills. After several expeditions to the mountain, he certainly wanted to get to the top for vocational reasons, but he also planned to deposit in the highest of all snows some offerings to the divinities that had long made Chomolungma sacred to his people. Hillary was by profession a beekeeper, and he would have been less than human if he had not occasionally thought...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early '60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali--Cassius Clay, in those days--appeared on the scene. "Just when the sweet science appears to lie like...
Gergen, who graduated from the law school in 1967, cited American Bar Association statistics indicating that 15 to 20 percent of all lawyers suffer from alcoholism and drug abuse--twice the national average--and a Johns Hopkins study which found that law is the leading profession in incidence of depression...
"He said the profession has to go back, but I don't think it has to go back," said Leesa M. Eichner, another third-year law student, mentioning the all-white, all-male status of law in the past. "We need to adapt to the realities of life today."
The differences between international studentsand Americans become striking for admissionsofficers charged with international recruiting.They find themselves explaining the nature of theAmerican liberal arts education, repeating timeand again that Harvard College does not trainstudents for a particular profession, as studentswould expect in their home countries.