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toward the [[crossed out: special] fervent revelations ^of which they were capable. The dead languages breathed again and the live ones became more varied and suggestive. Miss Hawkins, our teacher of English was said to be a friend of Amy Lowell about whom we knew little except that she smoked cigars and wrote modern poetry. we took it from that that Miss Harrison was in touch with the world of authors and critics and lent crossed out: weight excitement to her discerning comments on our compositions. Miss Gedding was a graduate of Bryn Mawr who treated us like intellectuals and abolished forever the dislike of mathematics enjoyed by most school children. I hope she felt rewarded by the number of original solutions to Euclidian theorems brought to class by her fascinated pupils. As for Miss Strong, who gave the most popular course in the curriculum, namely, an elective for seniors only ^on Italian painting - transfigured she spread out before us crossed out: the paintings a vision of the Italian Renaissance, and for a time we could think of nothing else.

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