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This legend is so famous it made it into American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. https://www.amazon.com/American-Folklore-Encyclopedia-Reference-Humanities/dp/0815333501
> their first two years of university work is the belief that there is a standard waiting period for a professor who does not arrive punctually. The most common system requires students to wait five minutes for an instructor, ten for an assistant professor, fifteen for an associate professor, and twenty for a full professor, although one also hears of ten minutes for a non-Ph.D., twenty for a Ph.D., fifteen for most faculty, all period if necessary for a full professor.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (Kindle Locations 669-672). Taylor and Francis. Kindle Edition.
Look up under Academia, the first entry.
tl;dr It's bull.