Education: Exit Growling

In his 44 years at the University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd."

Professor Kidd is a sharp-beaked little man with a shiny bald pate, who came to the Berkeley campus in 1905 and has been teaching there ever since. In that time no student who was as much as 30 seconds...

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