ABSTRACT
Columbia’s personnel office informed me of the advantages of being an emeritus professor, a status conferred on me when I retired on July 1, 1976. I would still carry a card allowing me to use the university libraries, and would stay on the university’s mailing lists. I could continue membership in the Faculty Club, and so forth. The East Asian Institute made me a Senior Research Associate and continued to provide an office, though I insisted on going into a small one, and secretarial help while I was raising money. Though I didn’t conduct any more classes, some students continued to see me about their research, and I still participated in a few Ph.D. examinations. I had been on the faculty for twenty-nine years, though three of them had been sabbaticals and I had had one half-year research leave, so I actually had classes for fifty-one semesters and two summer sessions. That surely was enough.
