Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only schoolbook that ever baffled him was Quackenbos' Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
...inside." For the clinic on Plympton Street hides its work in a rambling vine-draped building which could easily be mistaken for a farmhouse. The interior is equally folksy: it feels more like the home of a large (and rather eccentric) family than the combined research center, clinic, and classroom building which...
...Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the last of a generation of great headmasters-a man who cannot show a visitor to Deerfield an empty classroom without shaking his head. "You should see it full of boys," he says. "It's not right without boys...
...ever made his way into one of his lectures; those who tried it wish they had saved themselves the tongue-lashing. On the outside, Captain Kidd was a mild enough man, quick with advice or even a small loan for a student who needed it. But inside his classroom, peering out from under his green eyeshade, he was a different...
...well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator shaft in the end or meet with any other fit (and customary) punishment, but the last scene indicates a total...