Now it is the turn of higher education, and not even the cleverest professors can say for sure how this is going to play out.
"This is very clever," said Professor Charles Davenport, a Rutgers Law School tax professor, when asked to examine the system.
Clever Mary Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge, explained this point of the view at the time, so I recall.
Each of these decisions might have felt right, might have felt like freedom -- after all, Kate Fansler, the beautiful, rich, thin, clever English-professor heroine of the Amanda Cross books, always did exactly what she wanted, with usually splendid results.
Surprised by this absence of any contemporary usage, he says he expected "clever American professors to come up with examples to prove me wrong" - but so far there has been no such evidence.
Perhaps some clever political science professor will figure it all out someday.
"He is very clever," said Gary Blasi, professor of law at UCLA. "He has made a mockery of the legal system". Robbins has not ingratiated himself with other landlords.
Don't just include a quote to show off or to 'seem clever': the professor the examiner will see through this.
The approach is "very clever," says James Tour, a chemistry professor at Rice University.
A Stanford professor offers a clever pairing of the lives of the poet Keats and his brother, who emigrated to the American backcountry.
