Word: lifework
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...teachers have toward their work. The rapid turnover in collegiate faculties probably is surpassed by the lower schools. The chief reason for this is of course, financial, since the low salaries of the profession makes it distasteful or impracticable to many for whom it would otherwise be a congenial lifework. As a result, most teaching positions in the lower schools are filled by women, to most of whom, teaching is merely a temporary occupation before marriage. This fact naturally reflects on their value, since it discourages interest in the fundamentals of education and the zeal for sound experimenting, both...
...young man who announces that he intends to make writing his lifework is usually warned by his elders that literature is a gamble, with the odds against him. So perhaps it is with an eye to gaining practical experience in their chosen work that Harvard students have invented a gambling game based on a literature course...
Critics united in praise of his lifework, some calling it the greatest history of the U. S. ever written. One dubbed his style arid, but said that the interest of the living subject-matter more than compensated...
...inception in Percy Haughton. The annals of sport are not so complete but that heroes' names are soon forgotten. It is safe to predict that this will not be the case with the memory of Percy Haughton. Even if it should be go, he would be content with a lifework well done, whose end is not yet in sight...
...biology. He should learn to draw and he may to advantage begin the study of mathematics. The preparation that he needs rarely amounts to more than five or six courses, containing subjects that may well be included in any well rounded plan for a general education, whatever ones lifework is to be and the number of these subjects is so small as to permit the student to concentrate in any field that may interest...