academy schooln.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1356 As in all things I observed and kept still the old rule: To much of nothing, as being a schollar of the Academie schoole.

1702 Lives Anc. Philosophers 183 He succeeded to Speusippus in the Academy School.

1865 J. K. Craig Province of Reason in Relig. 15 (note) The principle of the Suspension of Judgment which was held and maintained by the Academy School is too well known to need any statement of it here.

1886 L. Irvine Mag. Ess. iii. 35 We read of his [sc. Cicero] studying philosophy under Philo, of the Academy school at Athens.

1997 L. Adkins & R. A. Adkins Handbk. Life in Anc. Greece ix. 388/2 He [sc. Plato] withdrew from Athens after Socrates' death, but on his return he established the Academy school.

2004 G. Bergman Little Bk. Bathroom Philos. iii. 30 When he [sc. Plato] was forty, he founded the famed Academy school, and he lectured and wrote there until his death.

1852 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 15 162/2 The Academy school and medals have likewise ceased to have an independent value, now that practical classes..are open at University and King's Colleges.

1888 E. F. Dilke Art in Mod. State v. 101 Every means of persecution, legal and illegal, was used to prevent students from attending the Academy school for..systematic study from the living model.

1928 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 23 177 When the Academy school started, both Henry and William studied there as well as another brother, Shephard, who later became a portrait painter.

1994 T. Crow in G. Perry & M. Rossington Femininity & Masculinity in 18th-cent. Art & Culture 201 No women were permitted to study the male nude in the Academy school.

2010 Painters Eleven 228 Unlike the Academy School at the Royal College of Art,..the Slade was ‘a bit more bohemian, a bit freer in its rules’.

2000 Guardian 15 Sept. 6 The government prepared for the launch today of the first of its network of city academy schools... They will be outside the control of local authorities, offering a major role for the private sector.

2008 Private Eye 8 Aug. 28/3 The rush to build academy schools continues with shenanigans aplenty as councils and private sector sponsors are apparently prepared to do anything to push their plans through.

2011 H. M. Gunter State & Educ. Policy 201 In his evidence to the Committee of Enquiry into Academy Schools,..Chitty cites a particular example, among others, of the danger of sponsor interest in the school curriculum.