THAT VERY SINGULAR teacher, old Mr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable teachers to meet him in his classroom. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy old teachers, who had been unfortunate in their career, and whose greatest […]
“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson Plans
September 21, 2016 By Trenton Lorcher
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August 3, 2016 By Trenton Lorcher
A throng of bearded administrators, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with teachers, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty minutes after the establishment […]