All over the U.S., schools and colleges said goodbye last week to notable teachers. Some of them:
The Boston Public Latin School's Joseph Lawrence Powers, 69, slight, billiard-playing headmaster of the oldest—and possibly the best—U.S. public school (founded 1635). A strict disciplinarian (in his best this-hurts-me-worse tone, he used to ask erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical...
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