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Show -104- he scarcely knew him. The man had made hisgreputation during the war? when he had published a book on Asiatic languages that was distributed to the troops throughout the Far East and that became a kind of esoteric best-seller at home. He had also recently organized a faculty group called Rebirth that was supposed to foster a return to the good old days before the present student and faculty troubles began. The Professor had been invited to Join this organization, but had refused because of his general belief that you could not turn the clock afoaature back£ even if you wanted to. His judgment; he believed? had been justified when the first proposal to come from Rebirth was that the whole of the quadrangle be planted in petunias to discourage the students from using it as a meeting place. Whether this had been a serious or a frivolous proposal? the Professor was not even yet certain. The meeting in the well of the room broke up. The three professors took seats in the front row? and the Chairman called the meeting to order. "As you know," he began in his slightly high-pitched, somewhat effeminite voice, "- as you know, we are here to consider how to respond to the events of the past week. All departments are meeting? and the Council of Deans has a meeting scheduled for this afternoon - also the faculty senfate. Two of our members are senators? They have asked permission to speak to you for a few minutes at the beginning of the meeting? If there are no objections - ?" |
