Last week I announced that since this would be the last class, I would use it as extra office hours and it's up to them whether skip it and study for other classes. And what happened? Nobody showed up! I expected this and even hoped this t…

特任講師観察記断章。授業日程についての学生からの質問メールの一行目に「お世話になっております」と書いてあるのを見ていろいろと考えてしまう。頭に浮かんだのは「敬語が使えない現代の学生」というありきたりの批判ではない。現代日本語における定型表…

"One kind [of realism] divines the potential reality...Prolific and multifarious as Nature is, her course is still only one among a thousand possible. Of all the routes by which man has been reached, was the actual route taken the only con…