Because the park system included a zoo, overactive imaginations, stimulated by Dr. Seuss's characters, have pictured the young Geisel frequenting the zoo during his formative years. How perfectly appropriate that would be if it were true.
Geisel went to high school in Springfield where an art teacher told him he would never learn to draw realistically, and, whether due to inability or refusal, he never has. All of his illustrations are distinctively fantastic. From high school he went to Dartmouth where he became editor of the college humor magazine, Jack-o-Lantern. He contributed reams of cartoons in the now famous style with bizarre animals. A happy relationship with Dartmouth continued beyond his 1925 graduation, and in 1955 Dartmouth legitimized his self-proclaimed title of "Dr." by awarding him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. Following his undergraduate years, Geisel went to Oxford for graduate work in English. He intended to become an English professor but became frustrated when he was shunted into a particularly insignificant field of research. A fellow student, Helen Palmer, advised him to follow his real talent which she observed as he doodled in a Milton class. Geisel took her advice, made her his chief advisor and manager, and married her on 29 November 1927.
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