Word: top
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overflowing with sense, would show himself rather a poet than a poetaster if he ever imagined so strange a thing as that any college poet could be a decent model for the verses he wishes to palm off as poetry; and he would show himself a sort of Cambridge top rather than a Western man of practical sense if he took Harvard poetry as his model. Why, take but our little Callanan Courant, with its troop of girls bubbling with merry verses of pleasure and gayety, or flowing at times with the easy pensiveness of that semi philosophical leisure that...
...educated men are wanted as heads of corporations. Within five years, after a man enters railroading, he will be as far advanced as though he had entered a learned profession, provided he is equally devoted, industrious, abstinent and tenacious. Of the five departments, all of which lead to the top, the construction department gives a man an out-door life, the legal, on the whole is, perhaps, most congenial to the college-bred...
...well to consider engineering as an increasing means of an honorable and successful career. There is no profession, perhaps, which offers such sure compensation for honest work as this. The means of livelihood which are more ordinarily denominated "professions," are, say what we may about "room at the top," over-crowded. We cannot all be Websters; nor is there a chance that every doctor will rival the fame of a Marian Simms. Many a good mechanic is spoiled in a poor minister. These facts ought to be taken into consideration when a choice so momentous as that of a profession...
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...study of medical science is human biology in its widest sense. New fields are constantly opening, as in bacteriology. Thorough scientific knowledge is demanded to-day. A preliminary academical training is very desirable. The two sayings of "Room on top," and "Go West" are of little value. There is room in the lower half of the profession. Over half of medical practitioners are successful. As in law, the man who has an air of confidence, a taste for research and knowledge, a practical mind and a kind heart, will gain success...