Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feathered prop...
...reviewer of "The Stones of the House" in yesterday's CRIMSON makes some statements about Theodore Morrison, the author. Mr. Morrison, it is the reviewer's opinion, "considers a student body as a necessary but unpleasant prop in a college"; he "implies that students in a classroom are not primarily concerned with learning; instead they face their instructors maliciously, much like a mob that needs skillful handling"; in short, "he does not understand his students...
From the faculty-student dealings in "The Stones of the House," I get the impression that Mr. Morrison considers a student body as a necessary but unpleasant prop in a college. There is no evidence that the relation between Rowley's professors and undergraduates ever goes beyond the brief contacts in the classroom or dean's office. Perhaps one might explain this as selective pruning; "The Stones of the House" is primarily a few months in Andrew Aiken's life, and during this time the acting president is seldom directly concerned with students. But at one time, Aiken must deal...
...bullfighting aficionados erupted last night over the size and shape of the muleta. John M. Steadman 1L, former chairman of the Yale Daily News, and Caldwell Titcomb '47, former 5G, took issue in letters to the CRIMSON with Lawrence Wilde '53, who had claimed a mullets was the wooden prop used by the hero to support his cape...
...enjoying relaxation." One woman who objected to this schedule was released from Liu's group with a letter of condemnation. No school or employer dared to take her on, and she was soon utterly destitute. By this time, Liu had become adept at turning out the kind of prop wash the party liked, but he wondered "how long it would be before the pressures on my own mind and the conflicts in my own heart and feelings would become in tolerable...