Classroom Virtuoso; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: My Friend Millard Fillmore; CHAPTER TWO: Four Strings, a Bow, and Reality; CHAPTER THREE: The Universe and Dr. Cahn; CHAPTER FOUR: Formidable Figures at the Front Desk; CHAPTER FIVE: Academic Interruptus; CHAPTER SIX: On the Cusp of Change; CHAPTER SEVEN: Finding My Way; CHAPTER EIGHT: A Teacher Grows Up; Photospread; CHAPTER NINE: Reflections on a Way of Life; CHAPTER TEN: Confessions of a Closet Jock; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Professor; CHAPTER TWELVE: A Job for Life; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A Man of the Theater.
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Did you ever have a teacher you couldn't forget? Someone who helped shape your knowledge and values, and so remains an indelible part of you? For more than thirty-five years, Victor L. Cahn has been such an influential figure. As secondary school "master"at Mercersburg, Pomfret, and Phillips Exeter, and as professor of English at Bowdoin and Skidmore, he has instructed, entertained, counseled, and inspired thousands of students, who have reciprocated by granting him their respect and affection. With thesame wit and perception that have made his classes so memorable, and from his singular pers.