Flamboyant Features of the Academic Habitat

What do the images and captions that professors tape on their doors say about the occupants inside?

By JAMES M. LANG

We have often noticed, as we stroll down the hallways of academic buildings, how the doors of the faculty beckon to us -- with whispers and insinuations, exhortations and declamations, jeers and jests -- via a motley collection of decorations: cartoons,...

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