Opposite to the monument of Ralph Neville is a modern altar tomb to a former headmaster of Durham Grammar School, the Rev.
The proposer of Andrew Trembath was none other than the Reverend Mr. Trewan, headmaster of the Grammar School.
The headmaster of the Grammar School had weight, and Dick Thomas had the hearts of the commonality.
He was successively an assistant-master at Harrow and headmaster of schools at Colchester and Norwich, and having taken orders, finally settled down at Hatton, Warwickshire, where he took private pupils.
He took orders, held various benefices, and became headmasterof Winchester Coll.
It was not long, as may be imagined, before the whole household, from the headmaster to the stable boy, were out in the garden with lamps and lanterns.
At the very last moment, however, I had the good fortune to win the praise and admiration of every one, from the headmaster downwards, and to find my school life made very pleasant and easy to me.
Jessop, who was afterwards headmaster of the school, says that there was a tradition that Borrow was indolent and even stupid.
As a schoolboy he appears to have been an apter pupil of Defoe than of the reverend headmaster of the Norwich academy.
No one ever heard of a parent slanging theheadmaster because his son didn't know who wrote The Alchemist or because he thought Chopin was a music hall comedian.
The Fosketts, as befitted a headmaster and his wife, were more formidable.
He was out of touch with all the causes for which Foskett stood, and it was among the small set of desperately serious and religious boys that the headmasterfound his champions.
Calder was headmaster of Moosejaw High School when he was twenty-three, in the year 1891.
The eminent headmaster of the Manchester School in Canada is one of the few M.
The headmaster of the Manchester School in Canada has had a multitude of pupils; none more brilliant than Mr. Crerar, who seems to have made Free Trade a species of bondage.
Boul, headmaster of the establishment, bearing a letter of recommendation signed by bailie Aloys Toost of Zizers.
The find was too marvellous and too rare for the headmaster of the college to let him escape; besides, the youth was modest in his claims.
Has he ever turned aside to learn what this headmaster or that thought of any question that interested him?
We do not insist upon a headmaster or indeed any of our academic leaders and dignitaries, being a man of marked intellectual character, a man of intellectual distinction.
When Paul Jones entered the college as a day-boy in 1908 the Headmaster was Mr. A.
His affection for him amounted to veneration, and however brief the leave he had from the Army he always found time to pay his old headmaster a visit.
Headmaster of Dulwich College since the autumn of 1914, writes: It was with deep regret that I learned of Paul's death, and I feel most sincerely for you all in your great sorrow.
Undoubtedly Mr. Gilkes's best work was done as Headmaster of Dulwich.
As a headmaster he was a gigantic character; of that there can be no doubt whatever.
He was the son of the headmaster of one of the best-known public schools.
However, as a consolation prize, and as I was leaving, the headmaster gave me a second prize.
One morning ourheadmaster walked into my room with a portentously solemn air.
Of conscious rebels or pioneers, two of the chief were that admirable, ridiculous pair of clerical brothers Joseph and Thomas Warton, Joseph long headmaster of Winchester, Thomas professor of poetry at Oxford and later poet laureate.
There are several families in Bristol, most of them coming from Wilts or (as the famous flogging headmaster of Eton came) from Somerset, whose names are spelt and spoken Keat or Keats and Keate or Keates indifferently.
The Headmaster gripped hands again, and returned to the school which would be ever the dearer to him for these few minutes out of it; and the Old Boy stood amongst us visibly transfigured, like Moses just down from the Mount.
And when we had quite "done" the school, and were down on the street where our carriage waited, an inward reluctance to make an end just there was felt by all, and resulted in suggestions calculated to give the Headmaster another chance.
Would we not all come back and dine with him, the Headmaster asked.
A principal or headmaster (Overlaerer) is generally placed in charge of each school.
Michael recovered from his dream to find the Headmaster speaking to him in his most rumbling bass.
Brownjohn, and one grey November afternoon the Headmaster sailed into the class-room of the Upper Fifth, extricated Michael with a roar, and marched with him up and down the dusky corridor in a ferocious discussion of the proposal.
Finally he persuaded his mother to write to the Headmaster and apply for his admission, on the grounds of the greater utility of History in his future profession.
Oh, the Headmaster has sent Fane from the Special," Mr. Spivey nervously explained.
The headmaster turned, and they followed him side by side Singer whispered to Philip: "We're in for it.
It was united by long tradition to the Cathedral: itsheadmaster was an honorary Canon, and a past headmaster was the Archdeacon.
Mr. Carey wondered why the headmaster did not come.
I expect you've got a good lot to learn," the headmaster bellowed cheerily.
But Philip thought over all that the headmaster had said, and presently, his mind taken up entirely with the ceremony that was before him, a mystical rapture seized him.
The headmaster glared amicably at the two children, filling them with fear by the roar of his voice, and then with a guffaw left them.
But when he had been back a few days the headmaster spoke to him.
He did not want to go, but he knew he could never bring himself to go to the headmaster and tell him he would stay.
It's not much good my spending half an hour writing to your uncle if he changes his mind the next letter he gets from you," said the headmaster irritably.
The headmasterhesitated a moment, and then, idly drawing lines with a pencil on the blotting paper in front of him, went on.
Without a word she shook hands with Philip and then sat down, not speaking, while the headmaster asked Mr. Carey how much Philip knew and what books he had been working with.
Philip did not answer, but the headmaster read in his eyes that he realised already something of what he tried to indicate.
In 1628 he was appointed headmaster of the free school, but, owing probably to advancing age, he held office for only eleven months.
Then they filed out silently, one after the other, and the headmaster and his ushers were left alone.
Then Mr. Fletcher had forbidden Mrs. Huffham to give credit to the boys; but Mrs. Huffham was an obstinate old lady, and treated the headmaster with no more deference than her grandson.
The headmaster preaches once a month, and a certain number of outside preachers, old Uptonians, local clergy, and others are imported.
But even a new headmaster with liberal ideas would now be hopelessly hampered by the fact that he would have a staff who could not teach modern subjects at all, who knew nothing but classics, and classics only for teaching purposes.
If our headmaster would even insist upon the young men whom he appoints obtaining a competent knowledge of French and German before they come here it would be something, because then, when the change is made, there would be less friction.
I do not feel that the Headmaster has any religion, except the religion of all sensible men.
The Headmaster is obviously a figure which his creator regards with respect.
And if he were to reply that the Headmaster fulfils these conditions, I would say that the Headmaster is a prig in this one point, that he is so desperately afraid of priggishness.
I suppose that Kipling would reply that he has done full justice to the profession by giving us the figures of the Headmaster and the Chaplain.
The Headmasterof Harrow: "I have read it and think it a very good book.
Lyttelton, Headmasterof Haileybury College, and in the football facts by one of Mr Lyttelton's Haileybury colleagues.
This title has been denied to the King here named, but Waynflete, also an Eton benefactor as well as official, was himself transferred by Henry from Winchester to Eton, becoming Headmaster and Provost successively.
The headmaster has upon him the burden not only of his educational work, but of the solvency of his daily business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headmaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
