Word: vocationalizing
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The biographies have common format and themes. Each begins with a brief description of the woman's family background, often emphasizing a father's influence on a daughter whom he wished had been a son. Then follows a chronological description of the woman's development and professional achievements, an account...
Hoover once considered becoming a Presbyterian minister, but he obviously had a vocation elsewhere. The son of a Washington civil servant, he worked as a Library of Congress clerk while taking night courses at George Washington University. He earned a law degree in 1916 and a master's a...
"Qui docet, discit," Segal will say. "He who teaches, learns." Teaching became his vocation no less than his avocation. The zestful, enthusiastic approach I saw last December had germinated in 1959 and was transplanted to the Yale campus in 1964 when Segal accompanied Eric Havelock, then chairman of the Harvard...
Much of this friendly distance can be attributed to her European upbringing and background. Last year her graduate seminar read Weber's Science as a Vocation, an essay concerned with the obligation of the professor to be a value-free social scientist. Her students by and large agree that Shklar...
Another serious problem for the priesthood-far more so than priestly resignations-is the decline in vocations, Greeley emphasized. He suggested a separate church commission to explore the problem. In the past, many vocations were born of the personal enthusiasm that priests were able to convey to younger men. Now...