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...first Lovis Corinth did not look as if he would be one of them. He went to study art in Paris when impression ism was already a decade old. Rather than join this movement, Corinth be came a star pupil of the arch-academic Nudesmith William Bouguereau...
...There he married Josephine Williams, a Nebraska-born nurse who had contracted tuberculosis and gone for her health to Arizona-where she still lives, active and sprightly at 89. Their son Barry was born in 1909, raised as an Episcopalian by his mother. In school, he was a reluctant pupil, quit the University of Arizona in his sophomore year to help with the family store after his father's death...
...corresponding letter materialized two ways: typed jumbo-size on the paper in the machine and spoken by a recorded voice. After two or three sessions, the recorded voice began to assume more authority: instead of repeating letters as they were struck, it started to dictate them to the pupil. All keys on the typewriter locked except for the demanded letter, and the child had no choice but to learn it by name...
...life is narrated by people who have known him: students, teachers, family. For the leisurely first half of the book only his admirers comment on him, and they see him much as he sees himself: a man of rocklike integrity and boundless Christian charity. Says one ex-pupil: "His kindness was overwhelming, without ever being in the least sentimental; without even, perhaps, .being personal. He raised the great beaker of his hope to my lips like a communion cup and watched with grave countenance as I drank, and when he took it away, I knew that it was because...
...library with 19,000 volumes, hockey fields, riding stables, a gymnasium with swimming pool and bowling alleys. Tuition and board costs $3,000, and optional charges (piano lessons, for example) can raise the bill by another $ 1,000. Yet Emma Willard is not a rich school; the endowment per pupil is $2,500, compared to $11,400 for Miss Porter's in Connecticut. Emma Willard took in only $80,000 in gifts last year, all of which went to scholarships and loans to 62 of its 340 students. A $5,000,000 fund-raising drive aims to finance...