February 26, 2007

A great victory has been won today. Presented with the hard evidence of Grafton's cooperation, Professor Burnett happily agreed to comply with our requests. He was a good sport about it (not in the Darwinian freakish-outlier-on-the-bell-curve kind of way), and began to study the Leibniz intently.
We would like to thank Burnett, and all those who have so far participated in our mad venture, for their cooperation and resignation to the insanity of the undergraduates. To those Historians of Science who have yet to encounter us in the bowels of Dickinson, bearing our fell packet and its baleful annunciation of doom, we say "Prepare yourselves" and "Do not attempt resistance." The Leibniz Projekt is as inexorable as the transit of Venus across the solar disk every 113 years or the eventual displacement of phlogiston theory by Lavoisier and his oxygen chemists. You all are well aware of these precedents. We trust you will act accordingly.