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The dean of Kinnikinick College, Dean Gideon Planish--he was a new dean; in the fall of 1926, he had been so exalted for only a year-- had almost finished the annual plague of straightening out undergraduate schedules. He was looking amiably at a thin girl with curly hair and troubled eyes, and he was chuckling.
-"This won't do, Miss Janes. Your schedule is badly unbalanced. Three courses in literature! I never heard of such a thing! 'Advanced English Poetry' and 'The History of the Novel' and 'Chaucer and Spenser.' What do you plan to do? Teach?"