A Theory Of Ink Flow

A day will come when Boreas will be in brash and brazen bluster. Against that day, we would commend to all lectures who occupy the nine-to-ten hour a thawing out period for fingers with small warmth of coursing blood in them.

A walk from Dunster to New Lecture or from Eliot to Sever will soon be numbing the digits to the point where, for the first ten minutes of the hour, they can make no fountain pen do their bidding. Maneuverability is even lower for the wayfarer who, by dogsled or other means, has made the long trek from the tundras of Concord or Lexington.

We respectfully suggest that, in organizing his lecture, the professor should give full weight to this consideration. Having done so, he might further reflect that minds warm up in the morning even more slowly than fingers. A reasonable solution might be to mount the platform at about 9:57.