Professional Education, Issues 10-19

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J.B. Lyon, 1904 - Professional education - 85 pages

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Page 51 - Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Total...
Page 40 - States army, navy or marine hospital service in the discharge of their official duties, or to any person who ministers to or treats the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means, without the use of any drug or material remedy.
Page 26 - And that all attorneys, solicitors and counsellors at law, hereafter to be appointed, be appointed by the court, and licensed by the first judge of the court in which they shall respectively plead or practise, and be regulated by the rules and orders of the said courts.
Page 51 - Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon...
Page 470 - York, high standards in preliminary general education are demanded both for degrees and for licenses,4 and in each case the question of attainments is determined by a central authority, the University of the State of New York. As a rule in other states the professional schools conduct their own entrance examinations, and the tests are often mere matters of form, even though the standards may appear satisfactory on paper.
Page 463 - ... within the limits of this monograph to give more than a brief outline of professional education in the United States. For detailed information touching laws, regulations, location of schools, and courses of study the reader is referred to Professional education in the United States, published by the University of the State of New York. Of the many authorities consulted the following have proved most helpful : US education reports ; Eliot's Educational reform ; US census reports ; Briggs...
Page 496 - A few of the facts which he has laboriously ascertained and stated may be here briefly mentioned as bearing upon the subject of the present paper. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 25 were lawyers, and so were 30 out of 55 members of the convention which framed the Federal constitution. Of the 3,122 senators of the United States since 1787, 2,068 have been lawyers; of the 11.889 representatives, 5,832 have been lawyers. " The average membership of lawyers in both branches of Congress...
Page 30 - Every person of good moral character, being a voter, shall be entitled to admission to practice law in all courts of justice.
Page 45 - In state medicine individualism is impracticable for it is impossible for the individual to protect himself. The social cooperation, which in our days the state alone can enforce, is needed to promote security against disease and progress toward better average health and longer life. To take all possible precautions against the spread of infectious diseases is simply an act of good citizenship. Nothing but medical supervision will accomplish the objects of state medicine ; and there are no agents...
Page 488 - ... secure intellectual agreement concerning the most abstruse and difficult subjects that the human mind can entertain. Bishop Whipple of Minnesota emphasizes the other side of this picture as follows : " Never in the world's history has there been such enthusiasm in all humanitarian work as now. Not even in the primitive church have greater victories been won in leading heathen folk to Christian civilization.

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