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    The Unwilling Professor
    The Unwilling Professor
    The Unwilling Professor
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    The Unwilling Professor

    By Milton Luros and Arthur Porges

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Unwilling Professor - Milton Luros

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Unwilling Professor, by Arthur Porges

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      Title: The Unwilling Professor

      Author: Arthur Porges

      Illustrator: Milton Luros

      Release Date: February 19, 2013 [EBook #42135]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE UNWILLING PROFESSOR ***

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      This etext was produced from Dynamic Science Fiction January 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      The Professor had braved great perils to reach Earth, and believed he knew what he was up against. But he hadn't counted on the menace of Fatty Schultz and Irv Lece.

      THE UNWILLING

      PROFESSOR

      by Arthur Porges

      illustrated by Milton Luros

      On that fateful afternoon Fatty Schultz and Irv Lece had cut their last classes, and were taking a gloomy walk together, scrambling through the scrubby brush well behind the athletic field.

      There were good reasons for their unhappiness. Fatty was failing in Calculus II with a velocity that varied directly as the square of the number of lectures attended. Irv's math instructor had informed him, with a kind of loathing respect, that his only salvation lay in recommencing the study of arithmetic—taking five or ten years in the process—and then retiring to a cave for perhaps another fifteen in the vain hope of digesting, through meditation and prayer,

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