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

Mr. Moi eventually received a certificate in public accounting from London through a correspondence course, and in 1945, he began a career in government schools as a teacher and administrator.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2020

In 2010, Kaoru completed his undergraduate degree at Chuo University through a correspondence course, and he is now working toward a graduate degree in Korean studies at Niigata University.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

She had always had to settle for Miss Trixie at a distance, an unsatisfactory arrangement for carrying out the program outlined in the psychology correspondence course, the final examination of which she had failed resoundingly.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole