SCHOOL

An institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or a universi- ty. A place of primary instruction. The term generally refers to the common or pub- lic schools, maintained at the expense of the public.

ing the management or distribution of property, or for making an arrangement between persons having conflicting rights. Thus, in the practice of the chancery division, where the execution of a charitable trust in the manner directed by the founder is difficult or impracticable, or requires supervision, a scheme for the management of the charity will be settled by the court. Tud. Char Trusts, 257; Hunt, Eq. 248; Daniell, Ch. Pr 1765. .An institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or a univeraity. A place of primary instruction. The term generally refers to the common or public schools, maintained at the expense of the public. See American Asylum vy. Phenix Bank, 4 Conn. 177, 10 Am. Dec. 112; In re Sanders, 53 Kan. 191, 836 Pac. 348, 23 L. R. A. 603; Com. v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl 277. —Common schools. Schools maintained at the public expense and administered by a bureau of the state, district, or municipal government. for the gratuitous education of the children of all citizens without distinction. Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 98; People v. Board of Education, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 410; Le Coulteulx v. Buffalo, 33 N. Y. 337; Roach v. Board of Directors, 7 Mo. App. 667.—District school. A common or public school for the education at public expense of the children residing within a given district; a public school maintained b a “school district.” See infra.—High schoel. A school in which higher branches of are taught’ than in the common schools. Mass. A school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the students to enter a college or university. Attorney General v. But123 Mass. 306; State v. School Dist, 31 Neb. 552, 48 N. W. 393; Whitlock v. State, 30 Neb. 815, 47 N. W. Normal school. A training school for teachers; one in which instruction is given in the theory and practice of teaching; particularly, in the system of schools xenerally established throughout the United States, a echool for the training and instraction of those who are already teachera in the public schools or those who desire and expect to become such. See Gordon v. Cornes, 47 N. Y. 616; Board of Regents v. Painter, 102 Mo. 464, 14 S. W. 938, 10 L. R. A. 493.—Private school. One maintained by private individuals or corporations, not at public expense, and open only to pupils selected and admitted by the proprietors or governors, or to pupils of a certain class or possessing certain qualifications, (racial, religious, or otherwise,) and generally supported, in part at least, by tuition fees or charges. See uigley v. State, 5 Ohio Cir. Ct. R. 638.—Puhc schools. Schools established under the laws of the state, (and usually regulated in matters of detail by the local authorities,) in the various districts, counties, or towns, maintained at the public expense by taxation, and open without charge to the children of all the residents of the town or other district. Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 97; St. Joseph’s Church v. Assessors of Taxes, 12 R. I. 19, 34 Am. Rep. 507; Merrick v. Amherst, 12 Allen (Mass.) 508. A pupee school is one belonging to the public and established and conducted under public authority; not one owned and conducted by private parties, though it may be open to the dele lic genera and though tuition may be free. Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St. 229.—School board. A board of municipal officers charged with the administration of the affairs of the public schools. They are commonly organized under the general laws of the state, and fall within the class of guass corporations, sometimes coterminous with a county or borough, but not necessarily so. The members of the school board are sometimes termed ‘school directors,” or the official style may be “‘the board of schoo! directors.” The circuit of their territorial jurisdiction is called a “school district,’’ and each schoo] district is usually a separate taxing district for school purposes.—School directors. See ScHOOL BoARgD.—School district. A public and quasi municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority or direction, comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government, and support of the public schools within its territory in accordance with and in subordination to the general school laws of the state, invested. for these purposes only, with powers of local self-government and generally of local taxation, and administered by a board of officers, usually elected by the voters of the district, who are variously styled “school directors,” or “trustees,” “commissioners,” or ‘‘supervisors” of schools. See Hamilton v. San Diego County, 108 Cal. 273, 41 Pac. 305; Landis v. Ashworth, 57 N. J. Law, 509, 31 Atl. 1017; Travelers’ Ins. Co. v. Oswego Tp., 59 Fed. 64, 7 C. C. A. 669; Board of Education v. Sinton, 41 Ohio St. 511.—School lands. See LAND.— Bohoolsminater: One employed in teaching a school.

In the most general sense, any institution of learning, including academy, college, common school, high school, seminary, university, &c., (see the various titles,) but commonly restricted to institutions of a subordinate or ordinary character which teach elementary learning to young people, in distinction from places for more advanced instruction. Of schools in this sense, there are two kindsthose which are maintained by private means, and in which each pupil enters by S. 325.) So where a person keeps an animal of a savage disposition, he is answerable for any injury it may do (even though he has done his best to keep it from doing harm), if reasonable ground can be shown for presuming that its ferocious character was known to him; this knowledge is technically called the "scienter." (Campb. Neg. 53; Underh, Torts 141.) Proof of the scienter is not necessary in actions for injury by dogs to sheep or cattle. (Stat. 28 and 29 Vict. c. 60.) The form was quare quosdam canes ad mordendas oves consuetos apud B. scienter retinuit (Reg. Brev. 110b), thus justifying the decision that "every dog was entitled to at least one worry." Fleming v. Orrs, 2 Macq. 14.

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day Shak. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. A. S. Hardy. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accomodation for all children in their dictrict. -- School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U.S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. -- School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic disciplene; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution. | An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university). | At Eton College, a period or session of teaching. | Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. | An art movement, a community of artists. | The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. | The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution. | The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held. | The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age. | An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. | A multitude.

To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school). | To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. | To control, or compose, one’s expression.