I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

