to lower a flag

He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.

to initiate his pupil in any part of learning

Don't you hate that, just 1ce I'd like to see people use one instead of 1. It's a 1der that any1 is able to get a high school diploma