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department-heads and vice-administrators)
whom I named last year as evaluators
of our academic posture. Maybe you knew
these things already. Notice I've come to you
in person: that's because I itch to find
out what, if anything, is on your mind,
and why you're camping on the Deanery stoop.
You, there: you're head of the Speech and ForensicsGroup
and closest to retirement; speak without fear
or rhetoric: What on Campus brings you here?
"A modern translation," Max remarked. "I hate it." But Dr. Sear declared that idiomatic translation of the classics was much inthat while he agreed that the modernization could go too far, he approved of the general principle. I observed that the line-ends seemed to rhyme, more or less, in pairs.
"Heroic couplets," Dr. Sear explained. "Nothing modern aboutthem."
"Ah."
Now an old chap, not unlike Max in appearance, with white beard and wrapper, spoke for the assemblage:
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