Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fusty Classicism. Eakins (rhymes with makin's) had the kind of whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age of 17. He loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses...
...Trade" column recommends the use of mail-order catalogues in the classroom. Reason: they are "wonderful teaching aids. Skills which can be quite painlessly developed include: use of an index, addition and subtraction, certainly multiplication, use of a postage rate table, writing checks and money orders, spelling and penmanship." Besides, looking things up in a catalogue...