history prof: “By the end of last week, what was supposed to
have happened in your mind is that universities exist.”

ibid: “Scott is in the minority almost of one.”

ibid.: “The book was published in 1667, after being delayed
by plague and fire.”

ibid., on class evaluation in the end: “This is where you
get to write, for example, which texts you find boring and
which texts too boring.”