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Example sentences for "common school"

  • Has the English-speaking race in North America passed through a series of historical epochs which, on account of their moral-educative worth, deserve to stand in the center of a common school course?

  • Having answered these questions to their own satisfaction, they proceeded to work out in detail a common school course.

  • Dick Harper acquired a common school education in Missouri and also attended the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri.

  • Frank Faure acquired a common school education in France and afterward attended the Superior school of La Mure Isere.

  • Swegle was reared upon the old home farm and acquired a common school education.

  • He obtained a common school education in his native state and afterward attended the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana, where he pursued a law course.

  • I have spoken of the Christian religion as the most important branch of a common school education.

  • It furnishes more reading for fifty cents than can be obtained in common school-books for two dollars.

  • He received a common school education, and a year in the academy.

  • The boy never attended an institution of learning higher than a common school.

  • Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, Riley had only a common school education.

  • He attended only a common school, a picture of which is given in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

  • It did demand a certain amount of memory, and such command of the English tongue as is given by a common school education.

  • While the result exalted his opinion of the speech-making faculty of a Representative of a common school education, it at the same time cured him of any ambition for political promotion in Massachusetts.

  • I came to ask you for a certificate of my fitness to teach a common school, or a high school, if you think I am up to that.

  • He had attended a common school in the neighborhood, and his uncle kept him still in attendance upon it.

  • He began his education at a common school, but was soon sent to the Anderson Academy, at the same time, however, assisting his father in keeping his books.

  • After a common school training he entered the railroad service in 1873, his first position being in the passenger department of the St. Louis, Atlantic & Pacific railroad.

  • What we call up North a common school education?

  • Oh, yes, sir; there is a common school system.

  • A large number of these people have enjoyed the advantage of common school education, and not a few of academic and collegiate education, and a large number have "put money in their purse.

  • It must come to be considered, that a little smattering of information is not sufficient to prepare a person for a teacher of a common school.

  • Many a man, who has been an honor to his country, and sustained with reputation the higher offices of the state, has been, in early life, a teacher of a common school.

  • No man now fills a greater space in the national councils, than the son of a plain farmer in New-Hampshire, who commenced his brilliant career on the benches of a common school, in his native town.

  • The Normal School is, with us, a necessity; for it furnishes that tuition which neither the common school, academy, nor college can.

  • A thorough system of common school education is the only means which can ensure these high advantages.

  • The most significant feature of the session, however, was a Common School Bill, introduced into the Assembly by Mr. Mahlon Burwell, and read a first time.

  • Lars Christensen was born in Thisted, Denmark, 1844, received a common school education, spent years on a large plantation as foreman and assistant manager.

  • After receiving a common school education, he took a course in the state University of Washington.

  • He received a common school education, graduating at the age of fourteen.

  • Another feature that is proving of benefit to the country schools is common school graduation.

  • Alexander Ray remained at home until he was seventeen years of age and during that time acquired a common school education.

  • Weller was reared in his native state and there obtained a common school education.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bonne compagnie; common ancestor; common conversation; common experience; common form; common government; common ground; common lodging; common plant; common property; common right; common salt; common source; common speech; common summer; common term; commonly believed; commonly found; commonly known; commonly made; commonly said; meet her; mercy from; return again; straight ball; this poor