Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A normal school; a training-school.
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Examples
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His name and memory are especially dear to the American people; for, although his scheme of the training-college failed, he lived for two years and a half in Newport, where his house still stands, and where one of his children is buried.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The schoolmaster says you must go to the training-college, said she.
Chapter V 1917
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When youve been to the training-college, what then?
Chapter V 1917
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One of the surest signs of a belief in the educational power of the story is its introduction into the curriculum of the training-college and the classes of the elementary and secondary schools.
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Do they learn as much there as at the training-college?
Chapter V 1917
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With her quiet, gentle spirit she has won the confidence of her pupils, and made possible for me that which apart from her comradeship would have been impossible, the establishment of a large school and training-college where in happy fellowship Chinese young women are working together for the women and girls of their country.
The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915
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St. Catherine's Convent of Mercy has a well-equipped training-college for teachers as well as a ladies 'school.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Germany and other northern lands toward the close of the eighteenth century, the normal school in France early in the nineteenth, and the training-college in England and the normal school in the United States by the close of the first third of that century, the work in these remained for a long time almost entirely academic in nature and elementary in character.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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[23] When Lancaster first hired the large hall in Borough Road which later became an important training-college, and opened it as a mutual - instruction school, he announced: "All that will may send their children, and have them educated freely, and those who do not wish to have education for nothing, may pay for it if they please."
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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In 1870 she founded a kindergarten training-college in Dresden.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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