“Professor O’Malley’s Dorm Room”
Posted in education, teaching on January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All anyone could find in it:
a bed lumpy with books
old essays by students
old books
by former students
old checks
from students repaying loans
never cashed
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“He was a university professor who ‘never earned a doctorate, taught a graduate seminar, or wrote a book’ He never married and, after entering Notre Dame as a freshman, never again lived outside a campus [...]