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ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR CAN'T STUB TOE ANY MORE

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No longer will the absent-minded professor stub his too.

After seven years of professorial and student grumbling, the university has removed the curbings at the ends of the walks within the yard and substituted gentle slopes, or ramps--no chance now for the absent-minded professor, walking blithely along with his head in the air, to trip and fall.

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