Walt Whitman High School is a public secondary institution serving roughly the western part of Bethesda—an unincorporated suburban area of Washington, D.C., in Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Maryland. The school is named in honor of the American poet. It is fed into by Thomas W. Pyle Middle School.
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—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
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I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The world below the brine,
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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—Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)