Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sidney Bartlett, '18, died yesterday in Boston at the age of 90 years. He was the oldest graduate practicing law, and throughout his entire life was noted for his energy and devotion to his profession.
Although an innumerable number of courses have been added to the college curriculum since the introduction of the elective system, one branch of professional study, in which a great many men now in college expect to engage after graduation, has been entirely overlooked. I refer to the establishment of a chair of journalism, to be classed under the same head as are all the English courses. There is no better way to test the popularity of an experimental course than making it in the first place voluntary, and then if the attendance warrants, changing it to a half or full...
Best general reference: J. J. Ingals on "The Sixteenth Amendment," in Forum, 1887. Catherine E. Beecher, "Woman's Suffrage and Woman's Profession."
The Warren Triennial prize, founded by the late Dr. J. Mason Warren, is this year offered for competition. The founder's conditions require that the interest upon the original fund shall be collected every three years and awarded for the best dissertation upon some subject chosen by a special committee...
...students in the 1st year '88 sent 14. At a corresponding time '87 sent 18 and '86, a close second, sent 17. It would seem that the professional men in '88 chose the law rather than its sister profession...