I had one very exciting teacher, Dow Bunyan Beene, called Doc Beene, because he was a Doctor of Divinity. He was, I think a Baptist minister from Georgia who had lost his faith in the divinity and was now a... a hard-drinking teacher who... talked a lot about sex also in the classes, and... he was wonderful. He was genuinely devoted to intellectual things. His... his subjects were Latin and Greek. The Columbia Grammar School had been known for Greek during the 19th century when Charles Anthon was the headmaster – he founded the American Numismatic Society and he was a famous Professor of Greek at Columbia, who wrote the textbook that most American children used for learning elementary Greek in the middle 19th century. But although that was a tradition, at that moment they didn't teach Greek. But he gave courses in Latin, and then he was used also to teach algebra, French, English and so on, whatever... whatever was needed. But I took Latin with him and I loved Latin anyway, it was particularly amusing to study it, in Doc Beene's class. Any question, any intellectual question, any question about fact or interpretation was exciting for him. And instead of giving some off-hand reply – probably wrong like most teachers – he would try to find out what the answer was. He would say, ‘Well, I don't know that. Why don't you go to the library, quickly look it up somewhere and then report back what you find?’ No matter what the question was, if he couldn't answer it. He was splendid.