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“it might distract from his professional stature to represent him as a poet,” 1966

When I first read this I was left sputtering with disbelief and annoyance:

The poems in question were written by Joseph Davies, Rice’s long serving and beloved professor of biology, who had recently passed away. The article that Miss Meredith had prepared was a lovely tribute to him. The poems themselves were also in the file and I present them here in an admittedly small but deeply heartfelt act of defiance:

I don’t give two raps what Mr. Ross or anyone else in the Development Department thought–I like them and I think even more highly of Dr. Davies than I did before, which was considerably high.

Bonus: Ominous!

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