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Show - "I Am a Scholar and Professor Because I Love and Honor My Calling" By PROF. ERNEST BERNBAUM, University of Illinois. Sensational writers allege the life of a professor must be dull, docile, and unprogrcssive. It happens that I, like many of my colleagues, could quit my profession if I chose; but I would not desert it for any occupation occupa-tion whatsoever, however remunerative or limelighted. I am a scholar because be-cause I love and honor my calling; because, despite its privations and trials, I find it the most stimulating, the noblest, and the happiest life. Its burdens and grievances are plentiful; but its joys cannot be surpassed by the rewards of any other profession the joy, I mean, of feeling that day by day one is comprehending a little more clearly the principles of one's subject, and therefore the realities of all life; and the joy of perceiving per-ceiving that whenever one. imparts his new won truth with enthusiasm there is a responsive eagerness on the part of youth to receive it. |