instructionally

Updated: May 26, 2025

I remember infuriated ushers, of foreign speech and flushed complexion the tearing across of hapless "exercises" and dictées and the hurtle through the air of dodged volumes; only never, despite this, the extremity of smiting. There can have been at the Institution no blows instructionally dealt nor even from our hours of ease do any such echoes come back to me.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others