TEACHERS TEN

Southland Times, Issue 24153, 15 June 1940, Page 15

TEACHERS TEN

Ten teachers, celebrated in fiction, are described below by Howard Collins in the “Saturday Review of Literature.” Take five points for each one you can name, and five if you can name, also, the book and the author. A score of 70 is "par,” 80 is good, 90 or better is excellent. The answers appear in the "Odds and Ends" column.

1. Master of Salem House, he always spoke in a fierce whisper and was fond of caning the chubbier boys, j 2. He teaches a night-school class in beginning English for the foreign-born | citizens of New York City. 3. His rival in love frightened him out of the country by playing upon his superstitions. 4. Though he suffered the misfortunes of war, was hanged for heresy, and became a galley slave, he lived through his troubles and remained an incurable optimist. 5. For three generations he taught Latin at the Brookfield School for boys. 6. Proprietor of Dotheboys Hall, he combined lessons in spelling with practical applied philosophy. 7. He gave up teaching French when the German army occupied Alsace-Lor-raine. 8. On examination Evening, with the help of a cat and the sign painter’s apprentice, his pupils revenged themselves on this stern schoolmaster. 9. This elderly Latin teacher, whom the Lawrenceville boys referred to by his nickname only, was strong on gerunds and gerundives.

10. Because Dr Samuel Johnson had once visited her academy for young ladies, the proprietor presented every graduate with a copy of his “Dictionary.”