academy Betydning & definition

Eksempler på academy

• In 1990, the struggle between the two camps revolved around admission to the highly prestigious, autonomous military academies.

• The birth of modern education: the contribution of the dissenting academies 1660-1800.

• The sons of impoverished farmers poured into the military academies and increasingly turned against corrupt urban politicians.

• English folk music is similarly under-represented in the concert hall and in dance academies.

• He enjoyed visiting schools, military academies, museums, zoos, parks and scientific institutes.

• Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centur ies, scientific academies helped support potential adjudications by recording new research results and pr ior ity claims.

• They offered fewer subjects than comparable white academies, but provided tuition in washing and ironing, which might prove useful to girls for whom domestic service constituted a probable occupation.

• A casual look at the academies might give the impression that they were mostly social in nature, that they functioned as a pastime for bored aristocrats and ambitious letterati.