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...immediately named his imaginary friend "Peters," and the President wished increasingly as the months dragged on that his long overdue employee would turn up. Four years passed and this spring when the errant professor was almost forgotten, a small news item appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...
...Dean William Taeusch of Ohio's little (1,000 students) College of Wooster, the new history instructor seemed just about perfect. He was a suave, scholarly Briton named Robert Peters. He had an impressive Oxford accent and an even more impressive array of credentials. A letter from Oxford's Magdalen College stated that he had an M.A. He apparently had another master's degree from the University of Adelaide in Australia. His specialty was medieval church history...
...Dean Taeusch could see, Peters lived up fully to his credentials. His Western civilization lectures were so polished that students flocked to hear them. He spoke at the Wooster Kiwanis Club and dazzled the local chapter of the American Association of University Women. He entertained graciously, and his personal library was rated excellent. An accomplished organist (he happened to mention, in passing, that he had a music degree from the University of Durham, England), he played during several services in the college chapel. Since he also let it be known that he had studied at St. Aidan's (Theological...
...return to Wooster, the troubled dean wrote to the Immigration Service, to Oxford and Adelaide, then sat back and waited. Finally, last fortnight, he summoned his student body to a special meeting to break the news. The polished Mr. Peters, said he, would not be around any more. As a matter of fact, he was at that very moment in the clink...
DONLEY H. EBERT Wooster, Ohio...