"What does the professor profess?"
At Baylor University in the 1970s, a well-loved history professor Dr. Wallace Daniel used to begin each semester with a lecture about his perspective on the world. It was very interesting, since he had his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and had studied during the Vietnam War years at the University of Moscow. (He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union, by the way.) He titled the lecture, "What does the professor profess?" saying that if we were going to study