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Stephen Leacock 1922

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Date: 19940401
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Stephen Leacock 1922

"If I were founding a university--and I say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable--I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more probably with it, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books."

As well as being a leading humorist and public speaker, Stephen Leacock was Professor of Economics at McGill University. He thought long and hard about ...

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