ABSTRACT
At the University of Chicago, trustees did intervene and so did the college president. The result was that Oscar L Triggs, "this most popular professor of literature, was driven out of the university" and reportedly became "a common laborer on a California chicken-ranch". Laura Triggs's fate was even more dramatic. After her divorce she married a Parisian, a certain Dr. Pierre Gagey, who had a flourishing medical practice in Paris and expected to win great financial rewards from his invention of a respirator. In 1904, a slightly desperate Thorstein Veblen, well aware of the difficulties of finding an academic job, applied for a job with the Library of Congress, for which he was vastly overqualified. In June 1905, Veblen wrote an article on the uses of credit for the Journal of Political Economy. In 1906, Veblen delivered a series of lectures at Harvard during a two-week leave of absence from Chicago.
