“… I remember one evening attending the main College dinner (’Commons’) and hearing one senior Fellow bemoan the fact that ‘these days, we no longer have any eccentrics.’ As the Fellow in question was considered by most to be a distinguished eccentric in his own right, and as the person he was saying this to was an even more notorious one, I could not in my mind agree that academic eccentricity was at risk …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 6 June]