Language Points in Para. 2
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Sentence analysis:
New as I was to thefaculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things.
Paraphrase: Though I was a new teacher, I knew I could tell him what a university was for, but I did not.
Note that the writer now referred the studentas a specimen in a humorous way, meaning he was typical of a style of studentswho came to a university just to get training for a career, as if he were typical of a certain of animals
New to sth.: not yet familiar with sth., because you have only just started, arrived.
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