"The thing's a provincial professorling in the very act of budding, and I thank the Lord devoutly that but for the precious gift of indolence I also might have gone this way to D.Sc. and destruction ..."
Source: wiktionary
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"The thing's a provincial professorling in the very act of budding, and I thank the Lord devoutly that but for the precious gift of indolence I also might have gone this way to D.Sc. and destruction ..."
Source: wiktionary
"It is a good transcript, I think, of the outer and inner life of a typical small western college and of the experiences of a young professorling."
Source: wiktionary
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