Friday, February 9, 2024

Grand old plays and sewing machines

President Harvey of the Alma Hettrick College for Girls (“a chubby, happy man who liked to have the students call him Butch”) is addressing the faculty as the fall term begins:

Jean Stafford, “Caveat Emptor” (1956), in Collected Stories (1969).

The student as customer: President Harvey was ahead of his time.

Related reading
All OCA Jean Stafford posts (Pinboard)

comments: 0