Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the legal profession, in the mind of the average man, the man who feels himself oppressed by the inequalities due to economic conditions, has long labored under the taint of an original sin, not even the members of the bar themselves will deny. The unfortunate belief that all lawyers...
Realizing the necessity of putting the profession in a place where it would gain the respect of larger numbers of the people who make up the lowlier walks of life and of making it more difficult for them to be imposed upon by those who little claim to be called...
The public schools in the past have been singularly outside the ken of college men, students, graduates, and professors alike, for the reason that students have come to college very largely from private schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen...
...annual report of President Hadley indicates that Yale is crystalizing an educational plan which differs from the University's in several particulars. Its foundation is specialization and prescription. Following the plan of the German universities, Yale proposes to begin specialization for professional service as early as the freshman year; while she prescribes the courses for her undergraduates on the ground that the faculty knows better a student's needs than the student himself. However, recognizing that men have different interests, she allows the undergraduate to choose one from several prescribed systems of courses. This system which considers an undergraduate...
...provide a similar freedom of interchange of professors so that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...