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The principal reasons for concentra- tion in economics are not vocational, unless being a citizen is a vocation. Even aside from enabling one to be a good citizen, one's education ought to initiate one into the intellectual life of the world. When the learning of the world was limited...
Only an ironist could describe football under the Haughton system as a sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort...
During the past two years, Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick has addressed these meetings which are held under the auspices of the University Christian Association. Last year Dr. Fosdick's talk on "The Ministry as a Vocation" gave a general outline of the work in store for those who intend to...
Or must the Artists and Scientists of our faculty admit themselves incompetent to produce any but a course wherein the gentleman after culture must be plunged to suffocation depth "under the surface" of one special, specialized branch of science, there to wallow for a year and to drag down by...
Coleridge, it seems, was right after all, when he declared that letters should be an avocation, not a vocation. Those of us who are receiving training in literature are merely being trained for a pleasant avocation; for the author, unless he writes the "book of the hour", cannot make his...