Sentence examples for of poor scholars from inspiring English sources
Eton seems unlikely to return soon to its core purpose as decreed by Henry VI: the education of poor scholars.
Austere in private life, Gilpin in 1574 founded a grammar school at Houghton-le-Spring Houghton-le-Spring Houghton-le-Springped finance the education of poor scholars, and visited prisons.
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Independent schools like Eton were set up to educate not the children of toffs, but "poor scholars".
The medieval poet John de Hanville dedicated a satirical poem on the tribulations of a poor scholar to Coutances.
Barely time to catch the Coach Tortorella news conference, where, famously grumpy and impatient, he greets the ink-stained wretches of the reporting corps the way Wackford Squeers welcomed the poor scholars at Dotheboys Hall in need of a caning.
Poor scholars are sometimes invited to join the family dinner as representatives of the ushpizin.
MARDAN, Pakistan — Farooq Khan, doctor to the poor, scholar of Islam and friend of America, represented everything the Islamist extremists hated.
Returning to school in Amsterdam, Van Dantzig proved a poor scholar, uninterested in most of his schoolwork.
His Poor Scholar (1947) is a critical biography of William Carleton, a pioneer of the modern Irish short story and a major influence on Kiely himself.
"Romana Barrack is a poor scholar – she suffers from lack of concentration," read one report.
