Apparently many pupils - and their parents - do not plan to let two days stand in their way of knitting two long weekends together, less than two weeks after the start of the second school-term. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Last year, we made the observation that it was inexcusable that text-books were not supplied within seven days of the beginning of the school-term. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Last year, we made the observation that it was inexcusable that text-books were not supplied within seven days of the beginning of the school-term: Many areas did meet this target. ❋ Unknown (1999)
There is no reason that text-books should not be in the schools where they are required within seven days of the start of the school-term, and that must become the target for next year. ❋ Unknown (1998)
I learned to spell and read; and my appetite for knowledge increasing, my young mistress set copies for me, and by the time the school-term was out I could spell, read, and write. ❋ Charles Thompson (N/A)
He was not a studious boy by nature and, though so young, had been missing most of the school-term for two years. ❋ Mabel Hale (N/A)
The boy who, weary of the school-term, considers what he will do on the first day of the holidays, or who anxiously forebodes paternal displeasure, is exercising his imagination; and the truth is that the faculty of imagination plays an immense part in all human happiness and unhappiness, considering that, whenever we take refuge from the present in memories or in anticipations, we are using it. ❋ Various (N/A)
Despite all our boasting of the American public school, of the equal opportunity afforded to every child in America, we have the shortest school-term, and the shortest school-day of any of the civilized countries. ❋ Margaret Sanger (1924)
When the school-term closed in early May and the boys and girls went home to hoe corn for three months, Philip, who was to remain in the school to work during the summer, asked for a week's holiday, that he might go and visit Nucky Marrs. ❋ Unknown (1912)
When the spring school-term was over, she sent them to her parents in the country, and she herself went abroad in order to obtain a divorce in the easiest way possible. ❋ Unknown (1910)
After learning to spell moderately well, for the sum of fifty cents each, he imparted his store of orthography to a number of slave boys, the place of instruction being an abandoned hut in a field, and the school-term comprising "four months of Sundays." ❋ Unknown (1906)
Its graduate missionaries visit in many homes, inspiring interest in land purchase, home building, school-term extension, thrift, temperance, and good citizenship. ❋ G. F. Richings (1902)
For Holly Lodge contained his mother and Trix, and the thought of meeting either of them after an absence of a school-term set his heart bounding, and his pulse throbbing, in a way he would not have owned to his best friends for the choice of bats in the best maker's shop. ❋ Lewis Hough (1899)
Except as an object-lesson in the unity and federation of mankind, the Fair had no valuable _raison d'être_, and, unfortunately, the school-term was short and the number of pupils comparatively limited. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)
She was still content and hopeful; and, as Jack wheeled her from the window to the fire, she explained to him, how, that, as the school-term was drawing near its close, Carry was probably kept closely at her lessons during the day, and could only leave the school at night. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
"Until the expiration of the school-term, we must consider Miss Tretherick as complying entirely with its rules and discipline," imposed Dr. Crammer. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
As Mr. Niles's school-term drew to a close, the two boys began to think of their future. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
