Quote from: Asymptotic on May 10, 2024, 05:38:06 AMQuote from: EdnaMode on May 08, 2024, 04:59:37 PMNot sure where the money is going because their tuition is among the highest in the Big Ten.
Administrative bloat. Main campus has an absurd number of redundant administrators. They sign our emails so I know.
Quote from: sprout on May 10, 2024, 12:21:56 PMQuote from: apl68 on May 03, 2024, 08:06:55 AMThe Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester. As much as anything, this is a love letter to the Oxford English Dictionary. The print version of the OED, which I recall using some in grad school, is an awe-inspiring work. Multiple, vast, well-produced volumes, filled with hundreds of thousands of words, each with a painstaking etymology and numerous quotes tracing its assorted definitions and shades of meaning down through the centuries. Though the first edition was not completed until the 1920s, it was in origin a fantastically ambitious Victorian project.
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Sounds like this is a retitling of The Professor and the Madman which I enjoyed a while back!