Hubers. Hastings
is the fellow I'd like her turned over to. He's a friend of mine, and
he's in sympathy, you know, with Dr. Hubers' work. All you'll have to do
is to tell Hastings to do it," explained the doctor, expansively.
The head of the department quite gleamed with the pride of authority as
he pronounced: "Which you may be very certain I shall not do."
"No?" said Parkman, leaning over the desk a little and looking at him.
"You say--no?"
"I do," replied the man in authority, with brevity, emphasis and
finality.
Dr. Parkman leaned back in his chair and seemed to be in deep thought.
"Then the popular idea is all wrong, isn't it?"
"I am at a loss to know to what popular idea you refer," said the
professor, with a suitable indifference.
"Oh merely to the popular idea that this place amounts to something; that
it has let go of a little mediaevalism, and is more than a crude, cheap
pattern--funny what ideas people get, isn't it? Now there are people who
think the university here puts a value on individuality, that it would
actually bend a rule or two to fit an individual case, in fact that it
likes initiative, encourages originality, wouldn't in the least mind
having a few actual achievements to its credit.
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