Re: grades/authority/community and the ivory tower

["B. Silk" <bsilk@titan.iwu.edu>]

Oh, Jeanne, this is wonderful--especially in this season of writing 
recommendation letters!

  --Bobbie


On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Jeanne H. Simpson wrote:

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> I love the idea of learning from the livestock.  Thinking of our recent
> adventures here, disposing of a sizable snake collection that included an
> immense python and a couple of extremely venomous vipers.   We did what
> all universities do with their snakes--we wrote them glowing
> recommendations and palmed them off on some other institutions.