尽管剑桥大学对一名先前的学子表示好意,任命我为斯莱德基金会[Slade Foundation]的美术教授,我却迫切希望不去滥用我的职权。我虽然是教授,却仍然有些像局外人。首先我是一个没有设荣誉学位考试的教授,没有尾巴的狐狸。尽管我十分欣赏我因没有那个附加物而得到的自由,我却决不想劝说其他的教授将他们的附加物砍掉,以致我很想提出一项请求,应当添加上一个附加物——当然不是给我本人(这件事情我在任期中是赶不上了)——而是给予我的一位继任者本人或者他所任的职务。 Despite the goodwill of a former student at Cambridge and the appointment of me as an art professor at the Slade Foundation, I desperately want not to abuse my authority. Although I am a professor, I still have something like an outsider. First of all, I am a professor who does not have a honors degree examination, a fox without a tail. Although I greatly appreciate the freedom I have gained from not having that attachment, I do not want to persuade other professors to cut off their appendages, so I would like to make a request to add an attachment - of course not To myself (I was too late for that term) - but to one of my successors or to the position he held.