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

In high school, Kingsolver took a correspondence course in philosophy, read Hume, Kant and Tolstoy when her peers were making out in cars, and won a piano scholarship to DePauw University in Indiana.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

The twins decide to enroll in a writing correspondence course, which is both their salvation and their downfall.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022

A letter from the director of the Henry George School of Social Science, welcoming me — I was probably 14 — to a free correspondence course in fundamental economics.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020

“Mrs. Levy won’t let us retire her. She thinks it’s better for Miss Trixie to keep active. Mrs. Levy is a brilliant, educated woman. She’s taken a correspondence course in psychology.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole