Word: vocationalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This criticism sounds reasonable at first, but it is not a wholly valid one. To begin with, it is absolutely necessary to teach a lot of theory. Sociology is complex; it cannot be boiled down to a few hypotheses; it cannot be simplified. Harvard does not intend to train its...
As far as possible, though, jobs for Harvard students would lie along the vocation lines to be chosen by the student. For instance, graduate students would be practically certain to do white collar or research work. A graduate in the sciences might be paid for assisting professors in the laboratories...
4) The sense of a divine vocation must be restored to man's daily work.
Chairman of their meeting was Thomas McKay, 27. Graduated from college at 20, Thomas chose an unpromising vocation-selling bonds in Wall Street in 1933. He made up to $100 a week at it, soon got bored, went to sea as an ordinary seaman. By last week he was back...
Danny Gleason was orphaned at 12, quit school after the grades, got a job as a New York policeman, spent seven long years shunting traffic daytimes, studying hard for his high-school diploma at night. In 1932 the Congregation of Holy Cross accepted his vocation, sent him to Notre Dame...