History is probably the best field for the student whose main aim in college is a sound liberal [i.e. freeing] education. History is concerned with all that man has thought and done, and a history major combined with inidividual courses in literature, philosophy, art, music, and the social sciences introduces the student to all facets of human culture and experience. Deans of law shcools and schools of journalism believe there is no better undergraduate preparation for postgraduate professional study in their fields than the knowledge and methods acquired by the history major.... The historical profession offers unsurpassed intellectual and emotional satisfactions of the college teaching....
Cantor/Schneider then add:
and attractive remuneration as well [what?!!] (135-36).
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