Tilton’s Laws of the Academic Universe
This list represents the first fifty rules and represents the list that is on my office door.
Rule #9
My office door has a multitude of signs, notices, and other documents of various interest and concerns. The text in particular that causes the most reading is a pair of papers called “Tilton’s Laws of the Academic Universe.” This document has been on my office door since I taught at the Ohio University of Lancaster. I …
Wisdomatic
I’m trying to create a new word in the hope that I can make it the Webster’s Word of the Year for 2012. That word is wisdomatic. I’m defining it to mean “the ability to dispense wisdom at a moment’s notice.” As a means of creating a working example of this word, I would point …