profestrix

— Moreover, I introduced into the problem an additional element by requesting their reaction to the word profestrix, […] Mr. John Sparrow, formerly Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, was very definite: “As for the retired female professor, I am sure she can’t be called profestrix emerita: profestrix simply won’t do! (Indeed I know it wasn’t meant seriously). ” “I don’t trust profestrix for a moment,” wrote Dr. Frank Stubbings, formerly Orator in the University of Cambridge.