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Grayson 2022-03-19 08:01:02
How do elites grow up
——American education between imagination and reality
"The Emperor's Club" is based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief". The story takes place in the mid-1970s, at an aristocratic boys' high school called St. Benedict. Handelt is a middle-aged teacher who teaches classics and... -
Edgardo 2022-03-19 08:01:02
royal club
As a teacher of an aristocratic school, William taught the history of ancient Rome. In a certain class of students, he saw a troublemaker named Bell. In order to allow Bell to participate in the Caesar Quiz Contest, William became selfish, and Bell cheated to get it. After the second, the two...
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William Hundert: What'd you think of Athens?
Elizabeth: Oh, I loved it.
William Hundert: I knew you would.
Elizabeth: Tony hated it. But, you know the British. Too many Greeks.
William Hundert: Tony's Tony.
Elizabeth: [hands a small gift to Hundert] Here. I told the man in the store that I wanted something from a very serious scholar of antiquity.
William Hundert: [Hundert unwraps the gift that reveals to be a water globe. He laughs] The Parthenon. It's smaller than I remembered it.
[Elizabeth laughs]
