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"The door to this classroom is farther down the hall, sir," said the student. "How dare you try to tell me where the door is," huffed the professor, as he turned around and walked abruptly into the wall. While he held his bleeding nose, he was heard to mutter, "Now why did they move the door?" * A proud man never doubts, even when his nose bleeds. The Boy and the Vulture
Cairns to the College, both as Professor and as Principal, and expresses the hope that he may be long spared to adorn the institution of which he is the honoured head, and the Church of which he is so distinguished a representative." The hope thus expressed was not to be fulfilled.
Once more the great propeller began to revolve, and presently the baronet, from his position under the foremost end of the pilot-house, remarked: "Now she is all clear, professor; the whole of the pilothouse is outside the shed. A bold dash astern now and we shall be clear fore and aft in another moment."
It's one o'clock, and you've got to go back to the office, while I've got a class. Come over to my room at four, Joel, and tell me what happens." Remsen and the secretary were no longer in the office when Joel returned. Professor Durkee was standing with his hat in his hand, apparently about to leave. "March," began the principal, "Mr.
"To me," wrote Cairns to George Gilfillan in 1849, "love seems infinitely higher than knowledge and the noblest distinction of humanity the humble minister who wears himself out in labours of Christian love in an obscure retreat as a more exalted person than the mere literary champion of Christianity, or the recondite professor who is great at Fathers and Schoolmen.
He glanced downwards, frowning slightly. An alert light flashed into his eyes. "They're after me!" he exclaimed. "Sit still, Professor." He darted into his room and reappeared again almost immediately. The Professor gave a gasp of astonishment at his altered appearance. His tweed suit seemed to have been turned inside out. There were no lapels now and it was buttoned up to his neck.
Perhaps, as it was, she did more than was needed. Shirley and Villette, with all their fine scenes, are interesting now mainly because Charlotte Brontë wrote them, and because they throw light upon her brain and nature. The Professor is entirely so, and has hardly any other quality. We need not groan that we have no more than we have from her pen.
In other words, it was entirely independent of the earth and its rotation. It was a point in inter-planetary space. The effective perception of this fact amounted to a discovery, as Olmsted and Twining, who had "simultaneous ideas" on the subject, were the first to realize. Denison Olmsted was then Professor of Mathematics in Yale College.
It would not do at Court, it is true, being the language of singing women, and the like; but we are not at Court when we are, I can perhaps summon up a little indifferent Latin, if I have anything private to communicate to the learned Professor." And at the conclusion of this speech the man in black lifted up his head, and, for some moments, looked me in the face.
Anyone creating a disturbance at that time will be instantly expelled." Thus did the professor conclude his introduction of the feature which, later, was to drive him and his kind out of business.
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