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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 Gymnasium Schooling In the ancient world...name for a senior secondary school that prepares students for...simply referred to the Latin school model that was developed by...took various names: grammar school in England, coll è...college, and indeed Latin schools were considered to be the...
Fumihiko Maki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Kyoto, and the Nippon...s degree from the Graduate School of Design. After completing...Speaking of his Fujisawa Gymnasium (1984) in particular, and...these needs." The Fujisawa Gymnasium nevertheless houses with ease...
Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...four-year common elementary school), Mittelschule (the six-year middle school) which followed it, and the academically rigorous Gymnasium . While non-denominational schools prevailed in Bremen, Hamburg...attended a denominational school throughout the 1930s. The...
gymnastics
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...component of ancient education. Gymnasia, the buildings with open...took place, evolved into schools where youths learned gymnastics...and intellectual training in schools are now almost completely...Germany the term ‘gymnasium’ still persists...secondary education, the ...
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 teach science in nearby schools. The monastery also allowed...qualify him to teach in a Gymnasium. Mendel never passed this...
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...there, first in the parish school of the local Greek church, and from 1868 in the Taganrog Gymnasium, where his religion instructor...1879 Chekhov completed the Gymnasium, joined his family in Moscow...circumstances. While in medical school, at the suggestion of his...For instance, he assisted ...
Johann Deisenhofer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...series of boarding schools, and he graduated from Augsburg's Holbein Gymnasium — a gymnasium is the German equivalent...North American high school — seven years...during his years at the gymnasium. The more he explored...
Ferdinand Braun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Braun. Upon graduation from his local gymnasium, he entered the University of Marburg...took a lectureship at the St. Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig, a post he also held for...professor of physics at the Technical High School in Karlsruhe, and in the year he left...
Emmy Noether
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was unexceptional, going to school, learning domestic skills...not eligible to enroll in the gymnasium (college preparatory school), she attended the St...she had not graduated from a gymnasium, she first had to pass an...
Kerschensteiner, Georg (1854–1932)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...reputation as promoter of activity schools, civic instruction, and...Kerschensteiner taught at elementary schools ( Volksschule ) before he attended gymnasium and university, passed the state examination for secondary school teachers (1881), and earned...dual control and continuation ...

Dictionary entries related to "Gymnasium (school)"

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...
Bolza Oskar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...to teach, either in a Gymnasium or a university, he interrupted...Staatsexamen, a prerequisite for Gymnasium teaching. From 1883 to...for research in German schools. Second, he was not robust and feared that Gymnasium teaching would be too strenuous...
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...brother, Jacobi entered the Gymnasium at Potsdam in November 1816...When he graduated from the Gymnasium in the spring of 1821, he...beyond that provided by the school curriculum. He had studied...prestigious Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin in the following...
Libavius (or Libau), Andreas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...settled. Libavius attended the Gymnasium in Halle during the rectorship...1592 he was also inspector of schools. Endless quarrels with the rector of the town school, Elias Ehinger, led Libavius...rector of the newly founded Gymnasium Casimirianum Academicum...Seidenbecker, professor at the ...
Mendel, Johann Gregor
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1829). In the primary school the enlightened Reverend Schreiber...and a year later to the Gymnasium in Troppau (Opava), where...that in his fifth year at the Gymnasium he had to interrupt his studies...members were teachers at the Gymnasium or at the Philosophical Institute...
Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...first classes of elementary school, to Munich. There he entered...xF6; nigliche Maximilian-Gymnasium in May 1867. His mathematical...Planck graduated from the Gymnasium in July 1874, he had not...weeks at the Maximilian-Gymnasium. On 14 June 1880 Planck was...
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...
Eisenstein, Ferdinand Gotthold Max
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...while he was in elementary school, his persistently poor...attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium and then, as a senior, the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in Berlin. In addition...to the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin for permission...
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...
Netto, Eugen
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...He attended elementary school in Halle and at the age of ten entered the Gymnasium in Berlin. There he was...his graduation from the Gymnasium, Netto enrolled at the...After teaching at a Gymnasium in Berlin, he became an...

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The Gymnasia: A Zionist-intellectual factory
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Post 10-22-1995 HERZLIYA Gymnasia recently celebrated its 90th...the first ever Hebrew high school, and my alma mater. I remember...Yehuda, a graduate of the Gymnasia, made mathematics exciting...in much lower esteem at the Gymnasia than it was at Dr. Biram...
'Gymnasia' Flexes Its Muscles
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 9/12/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...academically rigorous than the Gymnasia. However, the Gymnasia...also funds nearly 100 schools in Israel and the former...Some worry that the school's dependence on a...notch facilities. The Gymnasia's backers dismiss...several other Bukharan schools in Queens. "He helps...director, ...
Numbers No Sweat At Gymnasia
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 8/20/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...grade at the Queens Gymnasia, an Orthodox yeshiva...attended Jewish day schools since kindergarten...tuition-free school, caters to Jewish...the city public schools. Now any Jewish...grader out of public school can provide them...education at the Gymnasia costs $250 per...them to ...
Sandburg addition rebid without gymnasium
Newspaper article from: Mundelein Review (IL); 10/17/1996; ; 632 words ; ...addition to Carl Sandburg Middle School went through a significant renovation. It is now minus a gymnasium. After bids for the addition, including the gymnasium, came in between $1 million...to go to bid without the gymnasium. "The direction was given...school currently has two ...
Names leave their mark on area gymnasiums.
Newspaper article from: Lima News (Lima, OH); 2/8/2007; 700+ words ; ...Tom Usher Feb. 8--Every gymnasium should have a name. I'm...with me for years. My high school's gym was named after a...Glandorf's Robert J. Hermiller Gymnasium was named for a former O...1973. Shawnee's Lappin Gymnasium was named after C.G. Lappin...
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 ; ...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...s companion, the Men's Gymnasium. Also built in 1932, the...the Women's and Men's Gymnasiums (one of ...
The Posse Gymnasium. (Baron Nils Posse)
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...316). The Posse Gymnasium, in addition to training...instruction at the Posse Gymnasium. The classes meet two...director of the Posse Gymnasium from 1896 to 1911 and...of the Posse Normal School of Gymnastics between...the physical training schools in Boston were thriving...recognize the ...
New 'Gymnasium' Provides Lively Math Practice At BOXERmath.COM.
Business Wire; 1/11/2001; 643 words ; ...launch of the BOXERmath.COM Gymnasium. The Gymnasium is a new practice...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...products are ...
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 ; ...are exposed to outside the school setting, it is not surprising...learning experiences in the gymnasium (Gubacs, 2004). The challenge...shared and integrated into the gymnasium include a portable electronic...difference in the classroom and the gymnasium by creating various opportunities...
St. Joseph breaks ground on gymnasium
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 8/4/2004; ; 700+ words ; St. Joseph Grade School Principal Ray St. Aubin breaks ground on the new gymnasium recently for the Manhattan...St. Joseph Catholic Grade School was 85 students. This fall...eighth grade for the 2004-05 school year as well as the building...While many intercity Catholic schools and churches ...