Unprofessionality

We want no other advertising than facts known; this we do want, and—if we mistake not the marked inquietude of the “dignified silence” with which the youth and energy of our profession is wont to “wait for the world to come to them”—we will have it. The supercilious and such as can afford it, may raise the hue and cry of unprofessionality! may quack quackery and quacks! may play on their harp of a thousand strings” (the m-e-d-i-c-a-l profession!) and make asses of themselves, may ignore circumstances calling for more energy, effort, advertising to secure business than they put forth; […]

An unprofessional nurse casts a slur upon her school, for unprofessionality breeds carelessness.

It was Jay, once he had matriculated as a journalism major and duly signed on with the Hopkins News-Letter, who pointed out to me the unprofessionality of our department’s program in that line and the particular meaninglessness of my majoring therein, as I evidently had no taste for newspaper work.