Chair Professor

Famous quotes containing the words chair and/or professor:

    My chair was nearest to the fire
    In every company
    That talked of love or politics,
    Ere Time transfigured me.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whispering—it was naughty, I know—with my neighbor. Then you, Herr Professor Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: “Did you speak?” and slapped me smack in the face. And I—the fury is inside me to this day—I didn’t hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.
    Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)