Chapter 3A week before Smith was due to receive his PhD, Bowman Quinn offered him a full-time teaching position at the university. Quinn explained that it was not the university's policy to hire its own graduates, but because of the wartime shortage of trained and experienced college teachers, he persuaded the administration to make an exception.
Somewhat reluctantly, Smith had written a few application letters to universities and colleges in the general field, abruptly stating his qualifications; When nothing came from either of them, he felt oddly relieved. He half understood his relief; he'd learned at Columbia University the kind of security and warmth he should have felt in his home as a kid and couldn't have felt, and he wasn't sure he'd find that anywhere else. He gratefully accept
