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The further qualifications requisite in the members of the academic staff will be such as make for vendibility,—volubility, tactful effrontery, conspicuous conformity to the popular taste in all matters of opinion, usage and conventions. 去书内
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    This sentence satirizes the degradation of academic hiring standards under commercialization—Veblen mocks that "desirable" faculty traits now prioritize marketability (e.g., eloquence, conformity) over scholarly rigor.

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