life-school

English Academy, with full permission to share with Englishmen the advantages of the life-school, free of all cost; a piece of liberality that well might be copied by the French Academy, without at all derogating from its high position -- on the Pincian Hill.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

As it was, however, being forced out into the life-school of the world, she there matriculated on her own account, and so, perhaps, saved her further faculty from destruction.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

But any beginner at a life-school could have pointed out in the same statue endless deficiencies in anatomical detail.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

But besides a life-school attendance extending over not more than a fortnight, he had no other teachers than his own eyes and his own intelligence.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

The tedious routine of the life-school, the hours spent in acquiring knowledge for which you had no immediate use, are past.

The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

I suppose that our colleges are full of students who are going, to far outstrip their professors, that every life-school has a dozen lads who have just begun to handle brush and easel, and are going to put

Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868