--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 1 published: 1921-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Pride Goeth Before a Fall," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 1 (November 1921): 63.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2501unse start_page: 63 end_page: 63 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse publication_year: 1921 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Pride Goeth Before a Fall 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.