He leaned back and put his expensively loafered feet on one of my chairs. Apparently he was willing to cough up some change for footwear.

The most important lesson of the full year course in ancient history was the inculcation of the sweep of time: that a nation's life was not lived in isolation from its neighbors, that the acts of men have great and grave influences on their own times and for the future, and that the thread of life beginning in ancient times extends to the present.

An examless, gradeless school would have a better social climate; perhaps some would benefit academically. But it is a pure act of faith to believe such educational Utopia is possible.

Well, I got along to me room, sick an' sorry enough, an' doubtsome whether I might get in wid no key.