How to Get Rid of Good Professors

In a time when the demand for doctors of philosophy much exceeds the supply—that is, in our decade when the colleges and universities are bursting with students—some of our larger state educational institutions, curiously enough, have contrived to drive able scholars from their doors. One efficient way to go about this is to convert the professor into a machine tender and hired hand. Lo, some haughty doctors of the schools, resenting this modernization, then fold their tents like the storied Arab and steal away—but not always silently.

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In a time when the demand for doctors of philosophy much exceeds the supply—that is, in our decade when the colleges and universities are bursting with students—some of our larger state educational institutions, curiously enough, have contrived to drive able scholars from their doors. One efficient way to go about this is to convert the professor into a machine tender and hired hand. Lo, some haughty doctors of the schools, resenting this modernization, then fold their tents like the storied Arab and steal away—but not always silently.

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