The English Classical School opened in 1821 with 101 male students in Boston, which also was the seat for America's first high school of any kind, the Boston Latin Grammar School.
The English Classical School opened in 1821 with 101 male students in Boston, which also was the seat for America's first high school -LSB-...]
The English Classical School opened in 1821 with 101 male students in Boston, which also was the seat for America's first high school -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
The old -
school professors opposed the abandonment of the
classical languages, but those working toward a new core curriculum at Columbia pointed to the near - universal use of the Bible in
English.
With little resemblance to the
classical literary work of Jonathan Swift, this is one film that should never show up in a high
school English class as a study aid.
The best Classics teachers in independent
school demonstrate to their students the influence of
classical cultures on today's world, from the building blocks the languages provided for modern grammar to the cognates that inform the vocabulary of
English and the Romance languages.
On the other hand he never felt entirely at home with the ideals of the Barbizon
School, the members of which saw Romantic idealization of the countrysite as a form of escapism from urban banality, and he remained more faithful to the French
Classical tradition than to the
English or Dutch
schools.
Drawn especially to landscapes, he made copies in the Louvre of works by Claude Lorrain (1600 - 82), the
classical French master, as well as those by the Dutchmen Salomon van Ruysdael (1602 - 70), Aelbert Cuyp (1620 - 91), Jacob Van Ruisdael (1628 - 82) and Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709), and especially those by John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) of the
school of
English landscape painting, whose work he greatly admired.