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Directions 9b was filled when Vag got there. He crowded in near the door with the Gray-Flannels and Tweed-Skirt, and heard--but couldn't see--the professor...
Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...
Afterwards, Vag heard the Gray-Flannels and Tweed-Skirt. "Tremendous lecturer," one pair was saying. "He really gets down to the meaning of essence." another agreed. "For me," the Tweed-skirt said solemnly, "it holds the essential truths on which we might base all thought...
...Really," the Tweed-Skirt was whispering as the professor spoke, "this man is anything you can ask for in a course of this kind." "Tremendous lecturer," a pair of Gray-Flannels agreed. "Really buckles down to the inner meanings of . . . of essence...
...barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses the Tweed...