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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 5

Stephen Leacock has some interesting things to say in his essay on professors. He declares, for examplo, that Napoleon felt a life-Joilg abhorrence of the class, broken only by one brief experiment, that ended m failure. It is related that as the apogee of his Imperial rule tho idea flashed upon him that 'France must have learned men, that the professors must be encouraged. Ho decided to net at once, oixtv-fivo professors were invited that ovenm# to tho palace of tho Tuileries. They oanie. They stood about in groups, melancholy and myopic, beneath tho light. Napoleon spoke to them in turn. To tho first ho spoke of fortifications. The professor, m reply, referred to tho binomial theorem. Tut him out,' said Napoleon. To tho second he spoke of commerce. The professor in answer cited the opinions of Diodorus Siculus. 'Put him out,' said Napoleon. At the end of half an hour, Napoleon had had enough of the professors. "Cursed idealogues le cried, put them all out.' Nor were they ever again admitted,