Shrewd Ben Franklin was rarely outsmarted. One of the few men who did fool him was a caustic, tyrannical schoolmaster named David James Dove, whom he brought to the colonies from England in 1750 to teach at his Philadelphia Academy (later the University of Pennsylvania). Schoolmaster Dove quietly laid plans to found a rival school of his own, was fired when Ben Franklin discovered his plan. Thereupon, in 1761, Schoolmaster Dove helped start the Germantown Academy, today one of the oldest U. S. schools.
A political satirist and pamphleteer, Schoolmaster Dove had original...
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