:31:03
Of course,
my other book on cynips...
:31:05
hasn't been checked out
of the library in six years.
:31:08
I'd be surprised
if a dozen people have read it.
:31:11
But I guess I always knew
that gall wasps weren't going to...
:31:16
make them beat a path to my door.
:31:24
In any case, thank you, Herman.
:31:26
This is... This is splendid.
A really fine event indeed.
:31:31
- Thank you.
- Cheers, Prok.
:31:33
- Congratulations.
- Hear.! Hear.!
:31:35
Cheers.
:31:37
Some reform-minded undergraduates...
:31:39
paid me a visit the other day,
Thurman.
:31:41
They are campaigning for a sex course.
:31:43
I already cover sex in the hygiene class.
:31:46
Which the student paper called
the most useless course on campus.
:31:49
Oh, Kinsey. I'm glad to see middle age
hasn't softened the edges.
:31:52
- Mrs. Kinsey.
- Not only is your class irrelevant, it's irresponsible.
:31:56
There's a V.D. Epidemic
sweeping this country, Thurman.
:31:59
And that's my fault? I don't know
whether to be insulted or flattered.
:32:02
Besides, there's a cure for syphilis...
:32:05
and it's called abstinence.
:32:06
Penicillin works just as well.
:32:08
Herman, the trustees appointed you
to shake things up around here.
:32:12
Why not address the need
for sex instruction that deals frankly...
:32:15
with students' real questions,
real concerns?
:32:17
Open sex instruction
promotes daydreaming.
:32:20
It is better to address these matters
in a general medical course.
:32:24
You mean an anti-sex course...
:32:26
with irrelevant gabble
about dahlias and bees.
:32:28
Gentlemen. Please.
:32:31
I am going to take the studentsÂ’ proposal
under advisement.
:32:33
Good.
:32:34
But since I just got this job...
:32:36
and wouldn't mind hanging on to it
for a couple of weeks...
:32:39
I think I'm gonna stick with
the hygiene course for now.
:32:43
Medical authorities state...
:32:45
that, of the type of teenage girls applying
at public health stations for aid...
:32:49
the percentage that is infected
with venereal disease...
:32:52
is always very high.
:32:54
In all of these cases...
:32:57
where youthful energy
and inquisitiveness are unrestrained...