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 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.

I am proud of my country, the small city I live in, my wonderful parents, my friends and my school ; ;

These schools are intended to provide the facilities and specialized curriculum that would not be possible for very small school districts.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

The teachers of Mr. Uno's school gave me a small gift to thank me for coming.

His father established a small school near the Abdin Palace where European, Arab and Turkish masters taught Abbas and his brother Prince Mehemet Ali.

It comprises a small village school and a number of houses.

In most outback communities, the number of children is too small for a conventional school to operate.

Benjamin at first attended a small school, the Reverend John Potticary's school at Blackheath.

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

In their school room Beatrix and Bertram kept a variety of small pets, mice, rabbits, a hedgehog, some bats along with collections of butterflies and other insects which they drew and studied.

Noah's Ark Day School is a small alternative non-denominational Christian school for students in pre-K through first grade only.

( Colloquially, the school name is called " big name " ( 大名 ), whereas the " milk name " is known as the " small name " ( 小名 ).

He had high praise for the quality of the education he received in that small school.

The marriage, however, caused a stir within St. Thomas ’ small Jewish community, either because Rachel was outside the faith or because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle, and in subsequent years his four children were forced to attend the all-black primary school.

A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for 3 or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation rates of students from low income families.

At this time, the girls ' objective was to obtain sufficient education to open a small school of their own.

* The Howard Gardner School-A small independent school based in the tradition of progressive education, serving college-bound learners in grades 7-12 in Alexandria, Virginia.

* Bennington College-a small, liberal arts school with a self-designed baccalaureate program described as the " Plan Process " in which students collaborate with faculty to establish their own requirements, often across many fields.

Epicurus ' school, which was based in the garden of his house and thus called " The Garden ", had a small but devoted following in his lifetime.

* A small English-Estonian-English dictionary ( Institute of Baltic Studies ) — based on a common school dictionary

A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for 3 or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation of students from low income families.