East Tennessee State University - Buccaneer Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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who is that man behind the desk that woman whose chalk between nimble fingers is an extension of her inmost being. what is their purpose their many-houred exhaustive task, can they find reward, do they see our thoughts, is there communication between these glib-tongued busycrats and ourselves? what do they find do they think they reach us with their care-ful dic-tion their expansive vocabularies their illustrations and examples from vast uncatalogued depths? do they think we can be caught up in their enthusiasm as they gesticulate, articulate, expound, suggest, insist, inquire in a rapid-succession-of-movements. here! there! no-on the blackboard! what’s that no it can’t be she wouldn’t why it is oh my god a test! a tiny letter in a tiny gradebook does not tell all thousands of words behind that letter tell only half. their lectures have gone to the bounds and past. we are penetrated stimulated and-identifying- educated. 23

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