University of Western Ontario - Occidentalia Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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Time and time ago, a man asked me, What is a pro- fessor'? . Since then, with industry and integrity, I have searched in all the corners of the world, found all the sages from then till now to listen to their definitions. And a survey, a mountainous survey of great depth and many pages I tried, and all the men, who were professors or thought they were, took the survey and answered it so that with a computer mind I could devise the secret of their calling - the thing that makes them them and not us. What they all have said and how they have said it has brought me nowhere save back to this question. So I thought, prayed, turned objective to perceive the whirr that makes them tick - professors all. And now I find I can but try to explain it. And what is a professor and what does he teach and who profits from this experience, this expression, this communication of formulated ideas, ideals and such? ls it not simply that you have come here to this place, this school, this university with a spark of knowledge already within you, and that this man, this professor has unlocked the lock and let loose that spark and thus you have learned? How you look at and perceive that spark and what it does for you and you for it - that tells you how well you have learned. Some misuse this spark or send it into a state of disuse while others take it up and light with it other sparks that were until then partially unknown-partially hidden within them. The physicist and the doctor and the chemist and the historian all tell different truths, un- lock different locks, but it is all the one and the same lock and the same truth that one may know oneself, may unlock indeed the lock that is one's self, one's mind, one's world, one's universe to find the hollow beneath, the sharp curve that differentiates us one from another. ,M 1. --- H ...f , f , ,,-,,,,,,,,,.,.,.r..,--. fn- .. .Ap-uw-w ---1mv..s.-,- ,-:-ffsfm 1 ... v'-- ' ' ga .M-ww 'Y : W'wmuugpf -4v.4QUs-N rf -'U .1 I' Q 3, ..

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