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A Guide for the Young Academic Politician (1908)

MICROCOSMOGRAPHIA ACADEMICA B EING A G UIDE FOR THE Y OUNG A CADEMIC P OLITICIAN F.M. C ORNFORD Published by Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd, Cambridge First published 1908 O RIGINAL E DITION P RINTED IN C AMBRIDGE BY M ETCALFE & C OMPANY L TD T O E DWARD G RANVILLE B ROWNE A DVERTISEMENT If you are…

It will seem to you then that you grow wiser every day, as you learn more and more of the reasons why things should not be done, and understand more fully the peculiarities of powerful persons, which make it quixotic even to attempt them without first going through an amount of squaring and lobbying sufficient to sicken any but the most hardened soul. In the smaller bodies, called ‘Boards,’ we have succeeded only in minimising the dangerous feeling, by the means of never allowing anyone to act without first consulting at least twenty other people who are accustomed to regard him with well-founded suspicion . After walking five paces in the opposite direction you should call me back, and begin with the words, ‘Oh, by the way, if you should happen…’ The nature of Your Job must then be vaguely indicated, without mentioning names; and it should be treated by both parties as a matter of very small importance.

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