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Shrewd Ben Franklin was rarely outsmarted. One of the few men who did fool him was a caustic, tyrannical schoolmaster named David James Dove, whom he brought to the colonies from England in 1750 to teach at his Philadelphia Academy (later the University of Pennsylvania). Schoolmaster Dove quietly laid plans to found a rival school of his own, was fired when Ben Franklin discovered his plan. Thereupon, in 1761, Schoolmaster Dove helped start the Germantown Academy, today one of the oldest U. S. schools...
...political satirist and pamphleteer, Schoolmaster Dove had original ideas about running a school. When a pupil played truant, Schoolmaster Dove sent a committee to his house. The committee went through the streets carrying lighted lanterns, loudly calling the boy's name - "a sad exposure for the juvenile culprit," said a chronicler. Said one of Dove's former pupils, Judge Richard Peters: "He was a sarcastic and ill-tempered doggerelizer, who was but ironically Dove. . . ." One of his fellow tutors was Charles Thomson, later secretary of the First Continental Congress. Lodging with Schoolmaster Dove and his wife, Tutor Thomson...
Schoolmaster Dove stayed at Germantown Academy two years, then had a falling out with its trustees over the same trick he had tried on Franklin: planning a rival school. He started one, failed, started another, which died with...
...Industry Farley was as temperate as a zephyr, roared like a sucking dove: "I have no sympathy with the theory that government and industry are naturally arrayed in hostile camps...
...principal of their gift be left intact; but this is precisely what Mr. Hutchins's plan would eliminate. His theory is that the endowed college should maintain its present prestige instead of sacrificing it to an uncertain future in which inflation may wipe out all its holdings. The dove in the hand is better than the sparrow on the roof. Apres nous le deluge...