correspondence course

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After taking an architectural correspondence course and apprenticeship in his teens, the cocksure Ritchie had designed banks, opera houses and courthouses throughout Kansas by his early 20s.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Over the next decade, this man, who studied engineering by correspondence course, was responsible for the nine exquisite bridges that spanned the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Perhaps Dirda has forgotten what he learned in the correspondence course in fundamental economics he took when he was 14.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2021

To help support his parents and four siblings, Philip left school at 14 to apprentice at his uncle’s hairdressing salon, then enrolled in a correspondence course at Britain’s Institute of Trichologists.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2016

“You’ve already used her as a guinea pig for that correspondence course you took. Why not let her alone. Let Gonzalez retire her.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole