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.

Nevertheless, he continued focusing on educational projects and opened a new school at the end of his life in 1879.

On September 22, 1834, Alcott opened a school of about 30 students, mostly from wealthy families.

In 2010 the lycée André-Honnorat opened a boarding school aimed at gifted students of poorer social backgrounds, in order to give them better conditions in which to study.

" was shot on location at the California Institute of the Arts around the time the school first opened.

* In 2009, an elementary school named for Colin Powell opened in El Paso.

The doors to CUNY were opened wide to all those demanding entrance, assuring all high school graduates, despite possible inadequacies of preparation, entrance to the University.

In an account that had become standard by the mid-century, Hilbert's problem set was also a kind of manifesto, that opened the way for the development of the formalist school, one of three major schools of mathematics of the 20th century.

In 1896, John Dewey opened what he called the laboratory school to test his theories and their sociological implications.

When a new junior high school was opened in 1986, the Fairmount High School building was closed for good.

The first school and church opened in 1866, and the town was platted in 1867.

In 1905, he moved to Houston and opened a Bible school there.

In September 1957 the new college opened its doors to seventeen students, all of whom enrolled as freshmen in a renovated elementary school building at Bailey's Crossroads.

The school officially opened September 23, 1964, it is still currently active and it is housed at 8 W. 8th Street, the site of the original Whitney Museum of American Art.

The first known Greek medical school opened in Cnidus in 700 BC.

He was brought up to farmwork, but he assiduously cultivated all his leisure in reading, and when he was eighteen he opened an elementary school in his native parish.

A site for the school was selected on 25 March 1558 and it opened the following year on 5 June 1559.

Upon his retirement Imi opened a school to teach a civilian form of Krav Maga, including a version suitable for youth.

In the decades immediately preceding Macedon's domination of the Greek city-states, Chios was home to a school of rhetoric which Isocrates had opened, as well as a faction aligned with Sparta.

The Maternity Center Association and the Lobenstine Clinic opened the first nurse-midwifery school in the United States, which later closed.

In 1766, Reverend Laurence Coughlan arrived in Newfoundland and opened a school at Black Head in Conception Bay.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

He picked up a masters degree from Yale for giving an oral dissertation to the Yale graduating class, and later that year opened a small, private school in western Connecticut that was an instant success, though he quickly closed it and left town — likely due to a failed romance.

In 1969, the school opened its first two co-ed dormitories, and two more followed a year later.

The school opened mid year so the Kindergarten class of 1952 also attended the first half of First Grade in the Masonic Temple.

Of the eleven colleges, Baker is the oldest, originally built in 1912, and the twin Duncan and McMurtry colleges are the newest, and opened for the first time for the 2009-10 school year.