What does professorling mean?
Professorling means (obsolete) a young and unexperienced professor.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) a young and unexperienced professor.
"The thing's a provincial professorling in the very act of budding, and I thank the Lord devoutly that but for the precious gift of indolence I also might have gone this way to D.Sc. and destruction ..."
"It is a good transcript, I think, of the outer and inner life of a typical small western college and of the experiences of a young professorling."
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Professorling means (obsolete) a young and unexperienced professor.
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"The thing's a provincial professorling in the very act of budding, and I thank the Lord devoutly that but for the precious gift of indolence I also might have gone this way to D.Sc. and destruction ..."
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