Possible Clues:

• Given to serious reading
• Academic bosses must admit financial liability
• Thoughtful boss taking notes of what is owed
• Boss is going round university reading a lot
• Working hard as learner boss promises to pay
• It is thoughtful to put you and me beneath workroom
• Academic has rooms outside the university
• Thoughtful - hard-working
• Painstaking
• Scholarly boss with evidence of debts