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Johannes Sturm
Johannes Sturm , 1507-89, German scholar and educator. He founded (1537) and directed for more than 40 years the Strasbourg Gymnasium. His system of graded readings and classes shaped the course of studies of European secondary schools. He wrote a number of Latin textbooks. The most important of his... Read more
public school
public school in the United States, a tax-supported elementary or high school open to anyone. In England the term was originally applied to grammar schools endowed for the use of the lay public; however, it has come to be used for the famous endowed preparatory schools that now charge tuition. The ... Read more
James Naismith
James Naismith , 1861-1939, American athletic director, inventor (1891) of basketball, b. Almonte, Ontario. While an instructor of physical education at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) at Springfield, Mass., he originated basketball as a gymnasium sport. The game was... Read more
Wilbur Samuel Jackman
Wilbur Samuel Jackman 1855-1907, American educator, b. Mechanicstown, Ohio, grad. Harvard, 1884. Jackman was a leader of the nature study movement in elementary schools. He taught (after 1889) at the Cook County Normal School in Chicago and, beginning with Nature Study for the Common Schools (189... Read more
parochial school
parochial school , school supported by a religious body. In the United States such schools are maintained by a number of religious groups, including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and evangelical Protestant churches. However, the most numerous are those attached to Roman ... Read more
elementary school
el·e·men·ta·ry school • n. a school for the first four to six grades, and usually including kindergarten. ... Read more
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology at Rapid City; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1887 as Dakota School of Mines, renamed 1943. Of note are an engineering and mining experiment station, an institute of atmospheric sciences, a natural science field station, and a geol... Read more
school of Paris
school of Paris The center of international art until after World War II, Paris was a mecca for artists who flocked there to participate in the most advanced aesthetic currents of their time. The school of Paris is not one style; the term describes many styles and movements. The practitioners and a... Read more
school
school term commonly referring to institutions of pre-college formal education. It also properly includes colleges, universities, and many types of special training establishments (see adult education ; colleges and universities ; community college ; vocational education ). Public Schools... Read more
Charterhouse
Charterhouse [Fr.,=Chartreuse], in London, England, once a Carthusian monastery (founded 1371), later a hospital for old men and then a school for boys, endowed in 1611. The school, which became a large public school, was removed (1872) to Godalming, Surrey. W. M. Thackeray , a pupil at the school... Read more

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Gymnasium Schooling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...Eastern Europe, gymnasium is the name for a senior secondary school that prepares students...of the classical gymnasium. From the sixteenth...referred to the Latin school model that was developed...truly Protestant gymnasium, created by Johann...united a Latin school to a ...
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...responsibilities of the Gymnasium (a secondary school preparing boys for university...year common elementary school), Mittelschule (the six-year middle school) which followed it...academically rigorous Gymnasium . While non-denominational...
Fumihiko Maki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...function. Speaking of his Fujisawa Gymnasium (1984) in particular, and of...accommodate these needs." The Fujisawa Gymnasium nevertheless houses with ease...that are required of a suburban school gymnasium. Maki also designed Maki House...
Johann Deisenhofer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Augsburg's Holbein Gymnasium—a gymnasium is the German equivalent...North American high school—seven years...Prior to enrolling at school, however, Deisenhofer...during his years at the gymnasium. The more he explored...
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...first in the parish school of the local Greek church...1868 in the Taganrog Gymnasium, where his religion...Taganrog to finish at the Gymnasium. During this period...Chekhov completed the Gymnasium, joined his family...circumstances. While in medical school, at the suggestion...
Mendel, Gregor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...and his family sent him to school first in Leipnik (Lipnik) and then to Gymnasium in Troppau (Opava). After graduating from Gymnasium, he attended a two-year...to qualify him to teach in a Gymnasium. Mendel never passed this...
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Royal Government School Board in Kö...education in the private school which his father established...After graduating from the gymnasium in Stettin, Clausius...the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in Berlin. He received...Artillery and Engineering School in Berlin and also obtained...
Hugo de Vries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Educated first at a private Baptist school in Haarlem, young de Vries attended gymnasium (equivalent to high school) in the Hague, matriculating in the...then at Amsterdam while teaching in a gymnasium (1871-1877), and finally at the...
New Haven: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...view of Connecticut Hall, built in 1717. The school's 12 colleges, the 221-foot Harkness Tower...carillon concerts, and the world's largest gymnasium—the Payne Whitney Gymnasium—are highlights of the tour. Adjoining...
Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...where Ilya entered the First Moscow Gymnasium. Although he was a poor student, he...1907, when he was expelled from the gymnasium for leading an anticzarist strike. He had been exposed at school to ideas of revolution and early leaned...

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gymnasium
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...gymnastics, games, and other physical exercise. 2. / gimˈnäzēˌoŏm / a school in Germany, Scandinavia, or central Europe that prepares pupils for university entrance. DERIVATIVES: gym·na...
Libavius (or Libau), Andreas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the rector of the town school, Elias Ehinger, led Libavius...rector of the newly founded Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum. From its very beginning the school was regarded as a university...Seidenbecker, professor at the Gymnasium in Coburg. Some light...
Naumann, Alexander
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...minister, Naumann attended the Gymnasium in Darmstadt and then studied...assistant at the technical school in Darmstadt and in 1860...taught mathematics in the Gymnasium there. Naumann qualified...continuing to teach at the Gymnasium, he lectured and conducted...
Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold Max
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...he was in elementary school, his persistently poor...the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium and then, as a senior...1842, before completing school, he accompanied his...the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin for permission...passed his final secondary school examination, and Schellbach...
Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...completed the first classes of elementary school, to Munich. There he entered the...K ö nigliche Maximilian-Gymnasium in May 1867. His mathematical talents...stimulation provided by home and school, which was known as Bildung...
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...he graduated from the Gymnasium in the spring of 1821...that provided by the school curriculum. He had studied...and Latin to all high school grades, and ancient...history to junior high school students. When —...prestigious Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin in the following...
Mendel, Johann Gregor
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1829). In the primary school the enlightened Reverend...fruit trees both at the school and by the parishioners...to the Piarist secondary school in nearby Leipnik (Lipnik), and a year later to the Gymnasium in Troppau (Opava...
Orlov, Sergey Vladimirovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...graduating in 1899 from the First Gymnasium in Moscow, he entered the...Orlov taught at the First Gymnasium and began his Study of comets...in 1917 and returned to the Gymnasium, where he taught mathematics...developed by Orlov and his school. Orlov faced the problem...
Andrusov, Nikolai Ivanovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...three girls. While still a Gymnasium student, Andrusov became...graduating from the Kerch Gymnasium in 1880, Andrusov entered...zoology; but then, as in his Gymnasium years, he returned to geology...start of the Kiev scientific school of geology. In 1912 Andrusov...
Jungius, Joachim
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Junge, a professor at the Gymnasium St. Katharinen in L ü...Katharinen. Jungius attended that Gymnasium, where he commented on the...of Francisco Suarez and his school. In general, however, he...rector of the Akademisches Gymnasium at Humburg, a post he held...

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New 'Gymnasium' Provides Lively Math Practice At BOXERmath.COM.
Business Wire; 1/11/2001; 643 words ; ...assess student progress in the Gymnasium activities through the BOXERmath...online management system. The Gymnasium currently features problem...Algebra and Trigonometry. All Gymnasium releases are available at...learning for middle and high school students by providing self...
The Posse Gymnasium. (Baron Nils Posse)
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...left the Boston Normal School, and in February, he and Rose opened the Posse Gymnasium, writing that "since...connection with the Boston School of Gymnastics, the author...The first normal school class consisted of eight students. The Posse Gymnasium had three departments...
Sandburg addition rebid without gymnasium
Newspaper article from: Mundelein Review (IL); 10/17/1996; ; 632 words ; ...Carl Sandburg Middle School went through a significant...It is now minus a gymnasium. After bids for the...said. Eliminating the gymnasium seemed a feasible option, since the middle school currently has two gymnasiums. Strubbe said the gymnasium alone adds $1 million...
The mobile gymnasium using tablet PCs in physical education; with expanded capabilities in a compact form, tablet PCs are poised to transform physical education.(tablet computers)
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...education teachers teaching in a gymnasium. What is needed in this type...situations such as those in a gymnasium. Such mobility can adapt...are exposed to outside the school setting, it is not surprising...learning experiences in the gymnasium (Gubacs, 2004). The challenge...
OLD FRIENDS GATHER TO MARK NEW BEGINNING FOR ROSARY | $4 MILLION GYMNASIUM: FIRST ADDITION TO SCHOOL SINCE ORIGINAL PART WAS BUILT
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 9/14/1998; 651 words ; ...adjacent to the school as construction of a gymnasium begins. The groundbreaking...years old." The gymnasium is the first addition to the school since it was built...capital campaign. The school never has had a full-size gymnasium because women...
Bruins do some fancy footwork to turn gymnasium into hall for dancers.(REAL ESTATE AWARDS ADAPTIVE REUSE BUILDING ON THE PAST)(University of California Los Angeles renovates its gymnasium)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 2/12/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...constructed in 1932 as the Women's Gymnasium, was almost unrecognizable...alter the former Women's Gymnasium in ways the original designers...Waterman, dean of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture...with the former Women's Gymnasium, the university updated the...
St. Joseph breaks ground on gymnasium
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 8/4/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...like after the completion of its new gymnasium.| Parishoners and school parents gather at St. Joseph's recently...will break ground on a much needed gymnasium for the school. The original gymnasium will be divided up into more classroom...
College seeks backing for new gymnasium
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 3/9/1999; 466 words ; ...for a proposed new gymnasium that may be built...building a larger gymnasium it envisaged necessary for the school's and community...the Richmond YMCA gymnasium wasn't big enough...community and the school could benefit from...
3 YOUTHS ARRESTED IN CCHS FIRE 'LINK' TO GYMNASIUM BLAZE PROBED.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/8/1987; 694 words ; ...Catholic Central High School football field and...serious fire in the CCHS gymnasium. The youths were...damage to the high school gymnasium building in the early...building. Though the gymnasium also houses the school cafeteria, a band...
HART HIGH COMMENCES WORK ON NEW GYMNASIUM.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 2/16/1996; 700+ words ; ...claimed the Hart High School gymnasium - students, teachers...hurt here at Hart High School when the old gymnasium, an old landmark, had...Construction of the new gymnasium comes at a time when the high school is celebrating its 50th...