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Faculty Meetings
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Department Head's Rantings & Ravings
Department Head's Theme Song ("The Strenuous Life by Scott Joplin)
From: Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, translated by John Willett
PROCURATOR (speaking to Galileo): I have come in connection with your application for a rise in salary to 1000 scudi. I regret that I cannot recommend it to the university. As you know, courses in mathematics do not attract new students. Mathematics, so to speak, is an unproductive art. Not that our Republic doesn't esteem it most highly. It may not be so essential as philosophy or so useful as theology, but it nonetheless offers infinite pleasures to its adepts.
Faculty Meetings
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