A Large Round Table With Somewhat of a Crack In It.

“During the middle of the hour he noticed that this enormous table had a huge crack that ran right across it near the middle. It looked as though it had been there for years, but that no one had thought to repair it. Too busy, no doubt, with more important things. At the end of the hour he finally asked, "May questions about Aristotle’s rhetoric be asked?"
…"If you have read the material," he was told. He noticed in the eye of the Professor of Philosophy the same set he had seen the first day of registration. He took warning from it that he had better read the material very thoroughly, and did so.” (Cont. Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. I was not able to find any round tables in Cobb Lecture Hall, Phaedrus’s Classroom Building.
…However, I did find this /\ Above /\ Photo, and four other examples of huge round tables in the neighboring Social Science Research Building.
…In the above table, you must look closely to see the crack in the reflected green illumination. However, as you can see, this table’s crack is not as bad as that described by the Narrator.
…As viewed by the Narrator (and Phaedrus), the “huge crack“ symbolizes (Metaphoric Bridge Connection) serious problems in the system of Aristotle, AND corresponding serious problems in the way philosophy was being taught at U. Chicago.
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