But that is the price for continuing to garner high fees on the poetry reading circuit and holding down a university chair.
He occupied this university chair for 53 years.
He held the first university chair of mathematics in Peru.
Later, Wisconsin endowed a university chair under his name.
"Grassmann's ideas had been neglected because he had not held a university chair."
A condition of the donation was that the university chair in Chinese art and archaeology should again be filled.
Even his university chair did not become secure until the last few years of his life.
This book helped Sundén to obtain a university chair.
Nash sat across from her in his worn university chair.
Stories of individuals who have ascended from a threadbare upbringing to a university chair are not new.