Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The undertaking was brought forward at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society held yesterday, and it was made the subject of an address by Dr. Philemon E. Truesdale, M. D. '98. Dr. Truesdale pointed out with many details from the history of military operations, that the medical profession...
Such eagerness is honorable, but it is not wise, if we believe this war may last over an increasingly serious term of years. Men are destroyed easily by the iron tools of destruction which the modern army possesses. But they are healed slowly and only at great cost of skill...
If this war lasts two years more, we shall need the increased skill which men not yet qualified in their profession will have gained. If this war does not last two years, we shall be fortunate.
...times there are approximately 23,000 officers and men in the army and 10,000 officers and men in the navy. About 16,000 new men are selected every year. The remainder are volunteers, or what might be termed the professional soldiers, who have taken the military profession as a life's work. These men are the officers and non-commissioned officers who train...
...each one there must be thorough preparation. The average South American, then, graduates when he is 17, an age when most people in the States enter college. Then if he intends to take up some profession, he enters the superior grade. This corresponds to your professional schools. Just as our pupils must work harder in college, so your pupils work much harder in the professional schools. The course in our medical school takes seven years; in our law school, five. All one has to do is to attend classes in the morning...