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Show -123- against the Board of Trustees will be proposed and voted upon?" The remainder of the news was equally dull and less relavent? The Professor decided to watch no more. He switched the set off and walked back into the front room, where the phonograph had turned itself off? He removed the Mozart records and replaced them with a symphony of Hayden. He didn't remember how long he listened to the symphony. He was startled awake from a deep sitting-up sleep by the ringing of the phone? The dog? also startled, lifted her head1, her ears raised and alert? The Professor struggled to his feet? It was his wife calling? he guessed? and he was rights She told him there x*as no change, except that her other sisters and one of her brothers had arrived. "You'd better drive down here after the meeting tomorrow?" she told him? "I may come back with you if nothing else happens here; or?" some of the others can? There are too many staying here?" She asked him then about his supper, and he said it had been all right? He told her he would drive down unless he heard something more from her? He asked her to greet her relatives for him? The meeting? he said, was scheduled for one o'clock? so he should get there about five. The faculty meeting? held in the largest auditorium on campus, lacked any great excitement? was in fact boring? with its many speeches all covering much the same ground? but it did attract almost all of the eleven hundred members of the |