Word: gilpin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides all decisions related to our educational program. If we do not hold values in common, we may, like John Gilpin,* get on our horse and ride off in all directions...
...this reference Hunt's scholarship is off in several directions. John Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels...
...deal, Virginia's Gilpin family, which has controlled the company since 1943, agreed to sell most of its stock to a group including Mrs. E. C. ("Liz" Whitney) Person, Banker John W. Hanes and Financier Whitney Stone...
...winter of 1786-87, Cowper was utterly swallowed up by the way. After each attack he was left with less strength to support his despair. Yet somehow, in the decade 1780-90 Cowper managed to produce his finest poems (John Gilpin, The Task) and some of his most winsome letters. After 1790, however, the doomed man felt himself "plunged in deeps, unvisited, I am convinced, by any human soul but mine...