Word: whatmough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proctor of our dormitory was Joshua Whatmough, associate professor of Analytical Philology. He was an Englishman, small of stature and short on humor. We boys made life miserable for the poor man. But he liked me pretty well because I felt sorry for him and thought some of the boys went too far in teasing him. But we were all surprised (and pleased) when he got married a year or two later. We had him pegged as a lifetime bachelor. Among other things, he had a thermometer calibrated to tell him which underwear to put on at which temperature...