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...