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Show -305- decision, not the Director? The Chairman of the Committee xrent to the Head of the Department, who reported that the Dean had no feelings in the matter. In not granting the young man tenure, he xas simply following the wishes of the Director. The Chairman decided to call the Director before his committee to explain. in the meeting, the Director was forced to admit that he had lied and xas reprimanded by the committee. This xas of no help to the young instructor, however, because the Director now insisted more vehemntly than ever that he would not have instructor back in his program. In surveying the bare bones of this conflict in his mind, the Professor could no longer recapture the emotions that had flared a t the meeting, the grudge's that remained afterxard. Some of his sympathy for the young man remained, because the instructor had never gone back into teaching, and he had not ever completed the novel that he had gone axay to xrrite. The Captain of the airplane came back on the loudspeaker to announce that the plan xas approaching Sioux City. It could be seen, he said, from the left-hand xrindoxrs. Necks craned a l l up and doxm the long cabin. The Professor xas s i t t i n g on the right-hand side, so didn't see i t . All he could see from his window xrere square fields xrith a coating of snow on them. He had already begun to review in his mind the sequel to the events of the young instructor. The next year the Professor received his appointment to |