And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

The musician ran away from school when he was fifteen, but this escapade did not save him from the Gymnasium.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

and although it was a school for men only, it afforded Henrietta an opportunity to attend its public lectures.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

A rope was found and, like children in school, the missionaries skipped for hours at a time.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

John was away at school most of the time.

Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

In Nashville, a school was dynamited.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The school was small, dark and ill-equipped.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

These were too small, so Elmers School, a neighbouring boys ' boarding school, was acquired for the Commercial and Diplomatic Sections.

He acquired his Ph. D. in 1900 after which he took his first school job a Principal in a St. Louis, Missouri Elementary School.

Research has found that, even when students report not using the knowledge acquired in school, a considerable portion is retained for many years and long-term retention is strongly dependent on the initial level of mastery.

There is much less consensus on the crucial question of how much knowledge acquired in school transfers to tasks encountered outside formal educational settings, and how such transfer occurs.

In 1945, he acquired a diploma from a party training school in Moscow, and in 1953 he finished a correspondence course for schoolteachers.

Presently, Mowasalat, under the brand-name ' Karwa ', now operates more than 3, 000 new and well-maintained taxi sedans including the recently acquired airport taxis with spacious cabins using the 2007 Ford Freestars, and more than 120 public buses, school buses and private-hire coaches.

The Chomskyan school also holds the belief that linguistic structures are largely innate and that what are perceived as differences between specific languages – the knowledge acquired by learning a language – are merely surface phenomena and do not affect cognitive processes that are universal to all human beings.

Theology ( from Ancient Greek meaning " God " and ,-logy, meaning " study of ") is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.

Mbeki attended primary school in Idutywa and Butterworth and acquired a high school education at Lovedale, Alice.

His father, never quite content with his current job or possessions, was forever swapping for something better, and was usually in debt ; he owned a farm, taught at a rural school north of Mount Gilead, Ohio and also acquired a medical degree and started a small practice.

Welk thus acquired his trademark accent, typical of these Plattdeutsch or Low German-speaking immigrants who usually spoke the language at home long after they began to learn English at school.

Unlike Oak Ridge, the ranch school at Los Alamos, along with of surrounding forest and grazing land, was soon acquired.

Because French was a language acquired at school and university, Huston found that the combination of her eventual command of the language and her distance from it as a non-native speaker helped her to find her literary voice.

In the 1964 – 65 season, the 76ers acquired the legendary Wilt Chamberlain from the Warriors ; Chamberlain had been a high school legend in Philadelphia and began his career with the Warriors while they still played in Philadelphia.

Henry P. Davis acquired the school in 1889, and in 1891 the school was given to the Thornton Independent School District.

The building, built on land acquired for " educational purposes " by the commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and next to another of Science and Art Department's projects the South Kensington Museum ( later the V & A ), had originally been intended to be a new school of naval architecture.

At school, he acquired an English accent to avoid bullying.

After the school closed, a group of residents and business leaders formed the Booneville Education Association and acquired of land in the northwest part of town.

St. Mary's acquired land at the south edge of the city in 2010 that will be the location of their new Catholic Church and parochial school.

Keys has recently acquired a high school.

The settlement gradually acquired a few amenities in the late 1800s: a school in 1875, a Baptist church in 1876, and a post office in 1878.

At Henderson Row, the property next to the school, No 32, was acquired for administrative use in 1972 and in 1977, the Academy acquired the junior school of Donaldson's College, to the west.