I am supposed to read a book

[Heresson]

but in university library, one was stolen, and the other one is taken by someone else.
In library of Historical Institute (which, strangely, is bigger than University Library), it is not present, unless the guy leading this course did not write its name properly
Probably it's in National Library, but it is closed until monday, and this course is in monday, I have lessons since morning and no break to read it even if it was in Historical Institute Library
He was already angry nobody reads anything last lesson. I am afraid

[SlowwHand]

2 books? Wow.

http://books.google.com/

Or dl off p2p.

[BeBMan]

You have to read the entire book over the weekend or just a part of it?

[Zkribbler]

If the prof is around, go to him, explain your problem and ask to borrow his copy.

He may not lend it to you, but he'll be impressed by your persistence and desire to learn.

[Heresson]

he is a young teacher, a friend of a friend of mine, actually. As this friend explained to me, older teachers get to the point students are never properly prepared for a lesson, so they do not care. But young teachers are bad,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Heresson
he is a young teacher, a friend of a friend of mine, actually. As this friend explained to me, older teachers get to the point students are never properly prepared for a lesson, so they do not care. But young teachers are bad,

Funny, I was just the opposite. as a young, idealistic professor, I took the failure of students to do their work as a sign that I needed to try harder to motivate the.

As an older prof I took the failure of students to do their work as license to come up with all sorts of sadistic ways to punish them for their failings.

Maybe its different in Europe...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Heresson
he is .. a friend of a friend of mine, actually

So it's not a problem then

[Heresson]

Well, I am doing pretty well on these classes, except for that I don't know answers nobody knows.
But today, I was wanted to escape, but the others convinced me to stay. And just when I've changed my mind, the guy entered. He's made a small exam. And I was the only one to not have read two main books this time, so I sucked, kind of. Yet, when it comes to the third book, I still shone, though for the first time I've had some competition.

The topic of these classes is prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. Czartoryscy were a noble family of lithuanian descent, actually they were side-line of old pagan lithuanian royal (well, ducal) family, cousins of Jagiellons. They were kind of in the shade of other great families until XVIII century, when they became a political might, supporting internal reforms (they were heavily inspired by example of Britain, especially that they were partly Scottish, one of their grandmothers was daughter of count of Argyll or whatever), alliance with Russia and so on. In 1965 one of them was supposed to become the king, but he backed off so Katherine II made king of her lover and Czartoryski by mother, Stanislaw Antoni (August) Poniatowski.
They were patriotic and enlightened, yet when after partages they were faced with sequestr of 3/4 of their posessions, the ones under russian occupation, two young Czartoryskis were sent as hostages to Petersburg court. Adam Jerzy (George) Czartoryski, one of them, wrote in Grodno (nowdays Hrodna, once one of parliamentary capitals of Poland, and the place where Czartoryski met deposed polish king under russian arrest) a lenghty "Bard Polski" (Polish Bard) piece, changed in 1803 and published in 1840. It is hardly known in Poland, though it is one of few (I know two) contemporary poems directly dealing with partages of Poland.

[Jon Miller]

1965?

JM

[BeBMan]

I think it's a typo, should be 1765 when he lived in the time of Catherine II

[Heresson]

a typo, sorry