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...finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently, are the graphic examples to which "A Young Man Bent on Entering the Professoriat" should give his undivided attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSIONAL TRIALS | 5/22/1926 | See Source »

...hard to bear up under such scorn. Far be it from us to enter into an argument about historical methods; but such a naive view of Harvard and its professoriat, having little to do with the review of history books, falls within the range of editorial comment. We cannot help wondering if the "New Republic" is expressing the opinion of unbiased thinkers in the country today. One would not suspect to find so conventional an attitude in so Promethean a periodical. The reviewer has apparently excavated the pre-historic, absent-minded professor from the joke column and cartoon page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAUREL OF RESPECTABILITY | 1/6/1922 | See Source »

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