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French doggie joke: .

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Have you heard of the new fertilizer spreader? puppies?

It's called the electioneer. LMNO puppies! SAR puppies! Dressing like anun can'be habit forming. (MP? - u > I u . I I M 2 V 7 Life is like a typewriter. the problem With “fl-1m!"n W I a

most people is that they can only use one finger. “13,02;

Wednesday: Parking Committee again. This time we discussed whether the outer ring road should have one-way traffic only. There was not much diSpute on the principle of the thing, since other universities do this, but the committee divided on which way the traffic should go. The closet Marxists and their fellow travellers wanted it to go counter—clockwise, that is, to the left. The old St. Duhstan's crowd naturally spoke for the reverse.’ Fortunately I managed to get the‘question referred to one of our subcommittees for consideration and a full report later.

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Thursday: My lecture today was positively brilliant. I played on the class as upon a stringed instrument. I talked very fast, used a lot of technical terminology, and covered the

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/ Monday: ’. Took my accustomed seat this morning

for coffee with the .good old boys in the Faculty lounge. As usual, the discussion was on a fairly lOfty plane. One benefit of these coffee hours, apart from their being a delightful reason. to while away a' good part'of the morning, is that the cut and thrust of intellectual debate hones .one's wits to razor sharpness- Today the search for beauty and truth took us to the question of whether .it is correct to say " the space between, three points." I understand the English ’ ” Department is devoting its next meeting to this

, thorny question. ‘ ,

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Tuesday: Went to see my "Chairman today about my application for promotion. He looked at my

file carefully. _He looked at me sadly. _ "Publish," he said gently. "Or what?" I said belligerently. "Or perish", he said dramatically. Publish or perish 1 The phrase was new to me, but it had

an energizing ring. " I went back to my office

and put up my feet to think aobut it. Dozed'off until it was time for coffee. * ' n

board repeatedly with complex diagrams which

I rubbed off as soon as I was finished with them. As I told the class, it was all obvious, really. At the end I distributed a detailed reading list for next time, leaving out, of course, the book from which I had taken my lecture. The MacDonald girl, by the way, commented afterwards on how neat my handwriting is.

Friday: Department meeting today. We discussed ways of getting mere students to enrol in our courses, lest we receive some Presidential Bull 9n the topic of "redundancy." The question is really how to emulate Business Administration and start firm rumours among the students along the lines of (a) "We have here one of the best departments for this subject you could possibly find," and (b) "Without an education in this subject you will never work." It does not matter whether either of these rumours is true. Warm bodies in the classroom are all that matter nowadays. ' - '