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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-15 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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at that, and I'd like to see one of them bother me. I remember when one old long nosed Yap came into my History class last year. I put my kids thru the lesson and they knew it from A to Z. (We'd been preparing for them, see?) And all the time, this old Yap sat and whispered to the Dean. When he finished what he was telling we had finished our discussion and someone had dared to mention George Sand and Chopin. (Horrors!) I asked the dude whether he had any desire to question the class & he said no, but he had a suggestion to make. Everyone sat up and listened, and the old toad said something to the effect that it was what Chopin had composed that counted instead of his connection with George Sand, and that we should have thought that out in the lesson. One of the Seniors had just finished that very topic a
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at that, and I'd like to see one of them bother me. I remember when one old long nosed Yap came into my History class last year. I put my kids thru the lesson and they knew it from A to Z. (We'd been preparing for them, see?) And all the time, this old Yap sat and whispered to the Dean. When he finished what he was telling we had finished our discussion and someone had dared to mention George Sand and Chopin. (Horrors!) I asked the dude whether he had any desire to question the class & he said no, but he had a suggestion to make. Everyone sat up and listened, and the old toad said something to the effect that it was what Chopin had composed that counted instead of his connection with George Sand, and that we should have thought that out in the lesson. One of the Seniors had just finished that very topic a
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