Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems to be the popular impression that there is something in any college education, and particularly in a Harvard education, which prevents a graduate from becoming a successful editor. He may become a brilliant lawyer, a skilful physician, or a successful business man; but he can never become a great journalist...
Undoubtedly the prime requisites of a good editor are coolness, quickness, and impartiality; yet are not these qualities also required to make a man a good lawyer, physician, or business man? But behind the coolness and the quickness and the impartiality there must be some special knowledge, there must be a something on which these good qualities work. The aim of this article is to show that the training which one, by a selection of courses with journalism in view, may obtain at this College can be made to apply directly on one's future work...
...father is a lawyer. When I left home last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...
...last, one morning, I remembered, as I dressed myself, my father's advice; so I took the morning car into Boston, cutting my Latin. I remembered that my father said, "Go to the best lawyer," so I walked around in contemplation of the office, and at last went to the man who has the best room in Sears Block. That was the handsomest building, by long odds, and, thought I, the men who can afford it ought to be the best...
...often a bore; but it is not difficult to supply its place with the aid of the American one-sidedness of some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make other people do your reading for you it will save...