There was an annual register; there was
an album of loose sheets kept up by the members of the faculty; and there
was a card-catalogue, he remembered, in half a dozen little drawers. All
this ought to remove any necessity of putting questions by word of mouth.
The young clerk behind the broad counter annoyed him by no offer of aid,
but left him to browse for himself. First, the printed register. This was
crowded with professors--full, head, associate, assistant; there were even
two or three professors emeritus. And each department had its tale of
instructors. But no mention of a Bertram Cope. Of course not; this volume,
it occurred to him presently, represented the state of things during the
previous scholastic year.
Next the card-catalogue. But this dealt with the students only--
undergraduate, graduate, special. No Cope there.
Remained the loose-leaf faculty-index, in which the members of the
professorial body told something about themselves in a great variety of
handwriting: among other things, their full names and addresses, and their
natures in so far as penmanship might reveal it. Ca; Ce; Cof; Collard, Th.
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