"Many a promising teacher is given a permanent appointment on what seem adequate grounds of promise, and yet ceases by the time he reaches middle life to row his weight in the boat. Is the institution to waste its funds and are the students to be defrauded of their due for 20 years to ensure a livelihood to a man or woman who has proved incompetent or becomes intellectually stagnant?"
It was not an undergraduate journalist fulminating on a newly-discovered injustice. It was not even a self-righteous young instructor writing to a pinko-political...
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