Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh, the Crimson tied the score by pushing two runners across the plate. Essayan led off with a single over second into center. Vince Moravec flied out. Tom Sullivan then pasted a mighty triple over the right flelder's head scoring Essayan. Bill Harford followed with a single and drove in Sullivan. But the inning was ended with a fluke double play, as Senseney hit a long ball to right, and Page made a brilliant catch and doubled Harford off first...
Emerson, Anne Sullivan and the good and great teachers in between were all masters of the mental stretch. Near the top was James Mill, whose son and pupil, John Stuart Mill, tells how he began learning Greek at three and Latin at eight. Observes J.S.: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does...
...stretch just as hard, merely to start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...
...Anne Sullivan, obviously, possessed the good teacher's infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
...Hanrahan, no politico, is a partner in a Manhattan law firm (Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan). Though he professes to have no Wall Street clients (except one Government bond house) the downtown location of his office was enough to arouse some congressional opposition to putting a "Wall Streeter...