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Pride Goeth Before a Fall

Improvement Era, vol. 25, no. 1, November 1921, p. 63

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

Pride Goeth Before a Fall Desiring to interview a certain learned B. S. and Ph. D., a very pompous, stylishly gowned female entered the lobby of a building which she supposed to be the college where the gentleman might be found. "Is Professor L in?" she enquired patronizingly of the person in at- tendance. "He is not here," the one addressed replied. "Not here!" irritably reiterated the other. "Well, hj should be." "I beg pardon," the employee answered. "Do you know where you are? This is not a college. This building is a hospital for the insane." — G. I. F.