The Senior Wrangler

The Senior Wrangler of Unseen University is very unlikely to be a mathematician. Beyond a close acquaintance with the number 7a, who cares? What he nominally does is unknown. What he actually does, of course, is eat several large meals a day and avoid students like the rest of the faculty. The title might refer to disputation of theses and judging of oral exams, or perhaps actual wrangling of creatures more dangerous than horses. Since no one on the faculty does much to justify his title, we just don't know. The Senior Wrangler is, however, one of the senior faculty and an academic who looks like a horse. A long-faced man who hates the sound of silence, his attempts to fill it up tend to do to conversation what it takes quite thick treacle to do to the workings of an intricate watch mechanism. The least corpulent of the senior wizards, mostly owing to his belief that long food (beans, celery, rhubarb) makes the eater grow taller.