Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!