back-form

• On several occasions, when some unusually intelligent little creature would come from a back-form, and solve a question which had bewildered those in front, there was a sensible expression of delight over the whole school. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
• When my evening-school had been in operation a few weeks, I noticed, one evening, at the end of the back-form on the girls 'side a new face. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

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