"Headmaster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Just as the headmaster of a public school often seeks for a cricketer rather than a classical scholar for his staff, so the headmistress thinks not only of academic attainments but seeks for an assistant who can keep going a school society or a magazine (while leaving ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley
... When the Headmaster sent for Gray Minor, on receipt of a telegram from his home, the boys were in great consternation, because they all regarded him as a ...
— Brave and True - Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others • George Manville Fenn
... emulation by the progress which the Serbs had made. On his return in 1857 to Macedonia the people of the town of Kuku[vs]—near the future boundaries of Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece—invited him to be headmaster at their school. He was overjoyed that this town had the courage to have the Bulgarian language taught, and we have his reply. The Phanariote Greeks, he says, "will hurl their anathema against us! The Bulgarian script ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein
... the railway station, public and witnesses sat upon the school benches, while the coroner occupied the headmaster's desk. ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux
... already established his own record. He was under-sized and of exceptional breadth, almost flat in countenance, and with beady black eyes which on occasion lit up his face as when one illuminates the front of a house, but the occasions were rarely those which would commend themselves to the headmaster of a public school. How the dealer in horses removed the rector's difficulties was never accurately known, but boys passing the door of the rector's retiring-room when he was closeted with Mr. McGuffie overheard scraps of the conversation, and Muirtown was able to understand ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
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