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Friday the thirteenth was a godsend rather than an ill omen for William L. Prosser '18, professor of Law, and William K. Poindexter 2L. Professor Prosser got a real bona fide lawsuit, and Poindexter is still gloating over the chance to "scalp" a law professor...
...District Court sticks. The suit, brought by three small stockholders, has been dragging on for five and a half years. The men who must pay are Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Donaldson Brown, Junius S. Morgan, George Whitney, James D. Mooney, Albert Bradley, John Thomas Smith and Seward Prosser...
Richard King Mellon, 40, successor to his uncle, the late Andrew William Mellon, as head of the Mellon financial empire, has plenty of chicks but no child. Last week he and his 29-year-old wife, Constance Prosser McCaulley Mellon, adopted a two-months-old boy. To newshawks who begged for the largesse of a look at the child, Father Mellon gave short change...
...Prosser's speech was as frank and complete a statement of the vocational view of education as could be found, but a gloomy picture of the future of democracy is painted by his sturdy, scientific facing of the facts. His realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated...
...Prosser rejects "cold-storage knowledge" in repulsive psychological terminology on the grounds that the student "loses all such indispensable assets for efficient learning and its retention as interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils...