When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.

Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.

They left Grothendieck in the care of Wilhelm Heydorn, a Lutheran Pastor and teacher in Hamburg where he went to school.

He left school aged 15 and began to perform at youth clubs.

However, he was an insatiable reader, and continued to teach himself after he left school.

At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

Griffith left high school to help support the family.

An undistinguished student, he left school at 16, becoming a journalist for a short time.

In 1931, when he was 16, Thomas left school to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post, only to leave under pressure 18 months later.

Bowie received a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl.

When Bowie left the technical school the following year, he informed his parents of his intention to become a pop star.

When the brethren left Prouille, then, to begin their apostolic work, Dominic sent Matthew of Paris to establish a school near the University of Paris.

When he finished school, the town of Leiston offered little to Newson, so he left for London to make his fortune.

In 1883 Parker left Massachusetts to become Principal of the Cook County Normal School in Chicago, a school that also served to train teachers in Parker ’ s methods.

After the Society was closed down by the government, he left his hometown and moved to Korçë, continuing his studies in a French secondary school.

However, at age 16, she left Tamalpais High School, a public high school, and joined a stock theater company.

In 1887, Wright left the school without taking a degree ( although he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University in 1955 ) and arrived in Chicago in search of employment.

He left high school without graduating, having attended only 47 days before being expelled because of his rowdy conduct.

At 17, he left school at Sorèze to work for his uncle in his family's export business.

After his father died in 1853, Cleveland left school and helped to support his family.

Lineker left school with four O Levels.

He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school before working as a draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

In 1972, her mother purchased a farm in New Zealand and moved the family there, but left Love in the United States under the care of her former stepfather and various friends due to her increasingly hostile behavior.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.

But in 1972 she left him for the Scottish lawyer Derry Irvine.

He left Princeton in 1972, enrolling at Berkeley as a Ph. D. student in philosophy.

( It was released in the United States in 1972 as No Answer, the name being chosen because a record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company and get the name of the album — since they were unable to contact them they left a note saying " No Answer ".

Holden logos from 1928 ( left ) and 1972 ( right ).

And from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War until the early 1970s, 800, 000 – 1, 000, 000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries ; 260, 000 of them reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 ; and 600, 000 by 1972.

The Institute was founded in 1972, when packet switching pioneer Keith Uncapher left RAND Corporation with backing from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

In the early 1970s, Oakland won three World Series titles from 1972 – 1974, and after the A's left Kansas City under less than honorable terms, a strong rivalry existed between the two teams during this period.

Murat Ses left the band in August 1972.

A major turning point was the December 1972 Managua earthquake that killed over 10, 000 people and left 500, 000 homeless.

Mahfouz left academia and joined the Egyptian civil service, in which he continued till 1972.

Luttrell left the band in early 1972, eventually becoming the vocalist for Starcastle.

Other than during wartime, the Rosetta Stone has left the British Museum only once: for one month in October 1972, to be displayed alongside Champollion's Lettre at the Louvre in Paris on the 150th anniversary of its publication.

By 1972, the clean and press was discontinued because athletes started to push with legs and bend backwards instead of strictly pressing the weight overhead, and this left the sole elements of what is today's modern Olympic weightlifting programme – the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch entails pulling with a wide grip the barbell overhead without pressing out with the arms. It is a very precise lift that can be nullified by a lack of balance of the athlete. The clean and jerk is more forgiving using a narrower grip pull the bar to the shoulders and then using the strength of the legs push until arms reach full extension without a press out.

Cray left CDC in 1972 to form his own company.

After a watershed passage of the U. S. Noise Control Act of 1972, the program was abandoned at the federal level, under President Ronald Reagan, in 1981 and the issue was left to local and state governments.

He left Fairport Convention in early 1972 to join The Albion Country Band, He returned to Fairport to help complete the 1973 album Rosie with a revamped line up of the band.

Her dental-related issues, including surgery which left her in need of round the clock nursing care, also plagued her from 1972 until the middle of 1975.

On 23 April 1972, Wilhelm Helms ( FDP ) left the coalition ; the FDP politicians Knud von Kühlmann-Stumm and Gerhard Kienbaum also declared that they would vote against Brandt ; thus, Brandt had lost his majority.

Therefore, Cray left CDC to form the Cray Research company in 1972.

Mungo Jerry, who had evolved from an earlier blues group Good Earth, were in effect a jug band on their first live performances and recordings, thanks to their use of jug ( played by the group's banjo player Paul King, who left in 1972 ), and washboard, contributed by regular ' extra member ' Joe Rush.

The founders of the INLA were Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of the Official IRA in the wake of the OIRA's 1972 ceasefire and the increasingly reformist approach of Official Sinn Féin.

By the end of 1972, Casady and Kaukonen had left the group to concentrate on Hot Tuna and their recently acquired love of speed skating, which David Freiberg had reluctantly taken up in an attempt to bolster group camaraderie.