Word: professionsals
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The need for preserving business "secrets" and the very bigness of business machinery prevent the modern parent from copying the method of Benjamin Franklin's father, who took his son to the various occupations, and then let him choose the one he liked best. The Committee on Choice of Vocations...
Effendi corresponds roughly to the English Sir. Actually it means master or lord and is given to members of the professions and upper classes who have no higher rank. Effendim (my master) is used by servants to their employers.
Books on vocational subjects were reserved in Widener by the committee for the use of students seeking to make a decision on their life work, and in the CRIMSON six articles on the various professions were published. These articles considered choosing a location, the necessary technical training, remuneration, desirable attitudes...
President Butler, in his address to the Columbia School of Journalism, shows no appreciation of this struggle of the trade to rise into the ranks of the professions. He tells his hearers to cherish public opinion, and to guide it into the proper channels. Just how this is to be...
This, unfortunately, does not still the ancient fond between authors and critics. The author feels that his whole literary life may be destroyed by a spiteful commentator, and if his work has no real merit, that is what is likely to happen. It is the resentment which any craftsman feels...