[PRL] Michael Kinsley on PhD students vs advisors

[Mitchell Wand]

Will asked for the text of the prayer.  For those of you who are not
registered with the NYT <http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nyt.com>, here it is:

> In Walker Percy<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/walker_percy/index.html?inline=nyt-per>'s
> "Love in the Ruins," the protagonist, a doctor and an inventor, recites what
> he calls the scientist's prayer. It goes like this:
>
> "Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men.
>
> "Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man's destruction.
>
> "Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before
> the destruction takes place."
>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

Perhaps this conflict should be resolved through
prayer<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15risk.html>
> .
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:31 PM, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Michael Kinsley (of all people) has written an essay
> > about (a slight generalization of) the ancient conflict
> > between PhD students and their advisors:
> >
> > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1729711,00.html
> >
> > Will
> >
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