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Example sentences for "schoolhouses"

Lexicographically close words:
schoolfellow; schoolfellows; schoolgirl; schoolgirls; schoolhouse; schooling; schoolman; schoolmarm; schoolmaster; schoolmastering
  1. He also said that the people were very indifferent as to the necessity of schoolhouses and churches.

  2. Between the two stone schoolhouses at Capiz was a connecting house of nipa where in ante-insurrection days the native teachers had their quarters.

  3. The aforementioned nipa house between the two schoolhouses was utilized for janitors' quarters, and the arrangement was such that pupils leaving the room temporarily passed through it.

  4. The schoolhouses had been used as barracks by the Tagalogs.

  5. All rural schoolhouses with the comb of the roof running one way have attics, but the attic of this rural school is the first one and the only one that has been well utilized.

  6. Free persons of color were not allowed to open schools in some places, teachers of Negroes were driven from their stations, and colored schoolhouses were burned.

  7. On account of the feeling then developing against white persons instructing Negroes, these philanthropists saw their schoolhouses burned, themselves expelled from the white churches, and finally driven from the city in 1858.

  8. On Sundays the schoolhouses and churches were crowded by eager seekers, many of whom lived miles away.

  9. Moreover, the migration of these Negroes aroused such bitter feeling against them that their schoolhouses were frequently burned.

  10. The display consisted of photographs of the children and schoolhouses and the work of the schools from the kindergarten to the high school.

  11. A Journal of Education was established, a new and uniform series of school books was introduced, and commodious schoolhouses were erected.

  12. The schoolhouses were frequently unhealthy, and were almost always uncomfortable and unsightly.

  13. About as many schoolhouses for whites were destroyed as for blacks.

  14. For years the white Baptists of Alabama exercised a watchful care over the colored Baptists, whom they assisted in the work of organizing congregations and associations, and in the erection of schoolhouses and churches.

  15. The whites generally aided the negroes in their community to build schoolhouses or schoolhouses and churches combined.

  16. Much was said during Reconstruction days about the burning of negro schoolhouses by the whites.

  17. In Dallas County forty negro schoolhouses were built with the assistance of the whites.

  18. This hostility may be explained in several ways: The element of poor whites in the Klan did not approve of negro education; all negro churches and schoolhouses were used as meeting places for Union Leagues, political gatherings, etc.

  19. A committee was appointed to cooperate with the negroes in building schoolhouses and in procuring teachers, whom they assured of support.

  20. This fact will partly explain why there were burnings of negro churches and schoolhouses by the Ku Klux Klan.

  21. Schoolhouses were in the majority of cases built by the patrons of the schools; if rented, the rent was deducted from the school money; the state made no appropriation for building.

  22. I agree with Professor Jesse in regard to the consolidation of schoolhouses in such a way as to give the child in the country the same advantages which the child in the city has.

  23. The smaller schoolhouses formerly stood within convenient reach, and by abandoning them we have forced many little children to walk farther than they are able to walk.

  24. If it may be replied, that is not the generation for whom schoolhouses are now built, it is one which may interpret the wants of its children by just such recollections.

  25. We need far more schoolhouses than we have, and while money is being wasted in a thousand directions, thousands of children are left to be educated in the gutter.

  26. It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.

  27. Attached to all these schoolhouses there should be grounds for the children--places for air and sunlight.

  28. The schoolhouses in New York are not sufficient.

  29. His school training had been limited to a few months' attendance in one of the old-time log schoolhouses of Iowa with its puncheon floor and slab benches, the methods of instruction being as primitive as were the furnishings.

  30. Rigsby established preaching places at a number of points, the schoolhouses or private residences furnishing meeting places.

  31. The roads were extremely poor, schoolhouses far apart, many of which were not accessible by vehicle.

  32. Six new schoolhouses were built, and a considerable amount of furniture was purchased last year.

  33. John Forgey obtained his education in one of the old-time log schoolhouses and in the schools of Asotin.

  34. There are no schoolhouses in these districts but the officials designate certain houses[3] as the places where children go at stated times to receive instruction.

  35. In the rural sections primary schools are held in comfortable, well equipped, and conveniently located schoolhouses and are taught by competent teachers who live near by in homes provided for them.

  36. Under certain conditions it has in its power the locating of schoolhouses within this general district.

  37. If the old schoolhouses are in good condition there will be somewhat of a loss in selling them and in building a large new central building.

  38. No system of ventilation was provided in former days, and in some schoolhouses such is the condition to-day.

  39. As schoolhouses and churches increase in the land, jails and prisons diminish.

  40. Schoolhouses are cheaper than jails, teachers and books are a better security than handcuffs and policemen.

  41. In a number of cases the services have been held in schoolhouses that are inconvenient and inadequate, and in one instance the only place where the meetings could be held was a private home.

  42. Well, I began to hold services in the schoolhouses around.

  43. It was equipped with electrical apparatus to be used in the villages, and with acetylene light for the schoolhouses and country places where there was no electric current.

  44. Notices were posted up on trees and schoolhouses requesting us to leave the county forthwith.

  45. Two schoolhouses had been closed against us, but in both instances friends threw open private houses, so that those who came to hear were not disappointed.

  46. Great interest is manifested in the education of the children of the tribe: four schools are in operation, with an attendance of one hundred and twenty-three scholars; and two more schoolhouses are in course of erection.

  47. Provision was also made by Congress, at its last session, for the erection of two additional schoolhouses for the use of this tribe.

  48. In their altered aspects we came to know these schoolhouses mighty well.

  49. The other preaching places were schoolhouses or private dwellings.

  50. They planted churches and worshiped within their sacred precincts with loving reverence; they built their schoolhouses and had no lack of teachers, for many of their wives and daughters had been teachers in Old Connecticut.

  51. Copeland pursued his education in the district schools and began his studies in one of the old-time log schoolhouses with a puncheon floor, slab benches and sod roof.

  52. He acquired his education in one of the old-time log schoolhouses common at that frontier period.

  53. He pursued his studies in one of the old-time log schoolhouses of that early period.

  54. Surely sanitary homes and schoolhouses for the living would be more appropriate monuments to wise statesmen than the purest Parian shafts among the sepulchers of the dead.

  55. The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world.

  56. What I have said concerning the character of the schoolhouses and teachers will also apply quite accurately as a description of the church buildings and the ministers.

  57. The state had not been able to build schoolhouses in the country districts, and, as a rule, the schools were taught in churches or in log cabins.

  58. There are schoolhouses all over the land which are not used by the teachers and children in the summer months, which are not used in the winter time in the evening for school purposes.

  59. In many of them we have built schoolhouses too.

  60. Churches and schoolhouses had been built in many of the villages.

  61. At other villages along Enyong creek congregations were organized, and churches and schoolhouses were built.

  62. From Boston comes the suggestion that we avoid noises and evils of congestion by building schoolhouses for city children on the outskirts in the midst of fields, transporting, and, if necessary, feeding children at public expense.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolhouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.