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Show •308- to the President of the University. A month later, the Professor received a letter from the President, saying that a decision had been made to continue the subsidy to the magazine. Today, the Professor did not recall these events with any great pleasure. He had rehearsed them in his mind, he believed, because many of his old colleagues were still on the faculty, and he would be seeing them tomorrow. The Head of the Department had retired the year after the Professor left for California, but the Chairman of the Advisory Committee xas still there, as xas the Director of the Writing Program? But it would have been ten years since he had seen most of them! A few he had run into at meetings, and at least one other he had met once in Europe. The Chairman of the Advisory Committee had visited them in California about five years ago. The Professor was startled once more to hear the Captains voice on again over the static of the intercom. They were, he said, about to cross the Mississippi River? Dubuque was below them. They were beginning their descent. This surprised the Professor. Did this mean it took the whole distance across the State of Illinois to allow them to descend at O'Hare Field? He glanced out the window. It xas dark now? and the sprinkled lights on the landscape below did seem to increase slightly in brilliance. |