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...made, students feel alienated from their classmates. As one sophomore puts it, "Sometimes I feel as though I have no connection with the people--and even the whole structure--here. There's no one I feel I can really talk to about my thoughts and problems." Even the crutch of the freshman adviser has been pulled away. Girls feel they should be on their own now, and therefore hesitate to take their problems to administrative officials, such as their head residents. "Whereas the freshmen come to us as parents and the upperclassmen, as equals, we have very little conversation with...
Gloucester: My lord, you must not make my staff your crutch...
...Hardy did not expect the transplanted lung to survive indefinitely. He hoped that before the graft was rejected it would be a crutch to help Russell's right lung recover. In fact, the surgeons were delighted to find that the transplanted lung worked with more than 98% of normal efficiency. Fortnight ago, Russell's kidney disease killed him. But in the last 18 days of his life, he had helped to make medical history...
Thumped us with a crutch of horn...
...last election, the Conservatives elected 42 members from the Prairie Provinces. The $72 million wheat subsidy which Diefenbaker granted to western farmers 15 days before the election accounted for much of this support. Now this crutch is gone, and it is likely that western support will decline. Greatest dissatisfaction with Diefenbaker's regime has come from the discontented electorate in central Canada, urban voters who solidly backed the Liberals in the election last June. Diefenbaker's obvious last-ditch attempt to win the urban vote by promising urban development and redevelopment assistance will likely go unanswered. Social Credit leader Robert...