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From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty)
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Subject: Re: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 20:54:34 EDT
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> Because he has tenure.  And because "teaching" == "lecturing" is a hallowed
> tradition, dating back to times when books were scarce and expensive.  (One
> of the oldest universities in Europe apparently has an interesting document
> posted outside the room that used to hold its library:  a Papal Bull which
> decrees automatic excommunication for anyone stealing a book.  Gives you
> some idea of just how valuable books were before the rise of printing.)
> 
Actually, books were expensive even after printing was invented.  Until
the pulp process was invented, paper was made from rags.  In England
and the colonies, old rags were actually quite valuble, and there was
a continuous shortage.  It wasn't really until after the American
Civil War (the War of the Secession to unreconstructed types) that books
became cheap in this (or any other) country.  This is why students
used to get slates and markers, and sheets of rag paper were to be used
and erased, repeatedly.  Lecturers realy lectured, because that was the
only way that students could learn anything ...
-- 
				Rich Welty

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