June 27, 2008

What a Provost Knows and Can't Tell

By JAMES J. O'DONNELL

I used to slouch and shamble. I stumbled around campus, head down, eyes focused someplace just short of the ground, preoccupied with some abstruse question. Could Keats's "To Autumn" really be a political tract? Does the Latin word quin really appear always and only after a negative? Where did I see that article about donkeys and magic rituals that I need for my next chapter? Most important, how would I time my arrival at the tenure meeting to evade conversation with my colleagues? (I once

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