Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once upon a time in Tennessee I had a high school Latin teacher: Miss Martha Shelton Davis. We used to be terribly clever and call her Mattie behind her back. Like the rest of my classmates, I hated her daily for four straight years...
Then I was in ninth grade and allowed to penetrate the sanctum of Miss Davis's room. Decorated in archaic Romanesque, it featured four rows, divided two and two. The boys sat in the left two rows in alphabetical order; the girls on the right. Above the chalk-board was a handprinted sign: "Time will pass, will...
Latin books from the thirties lined the walls and sample test questions from the Kansas State Normal School adorned the bulletin board. To succeed in Latin required no intellectual curiosity but rather an ability to appreciate Miss Davis's sermons, and a working knowledge of the art of sycophancy...
...came senior year. A budding radical, I now defied the school authorities and wore blue jeans to school. I skipped classes, hoping my National Merit status would provide immunity from disciplinary action. Then in a fit of hubris, I got mononucleosis and was out of school for three weeks. Miss Davis approved neither of my absence nor the disease. I knew the Lares and Penates were against me: Sure enough, when time came for grades, retribution rained down upon my head. I was mortified...
Tony Jenkins, the Harvard basketball captain, had a Rhodes Scholarship interview slated for Saturday in Chicago. Since the Crimson was scheduled for a night game with Brown at home in the IAB, it looked like Jenkins would miss the contest...