collegiate institute
Americannoun
noun
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The educational equipment comprises a normal college, collegiate institute, model school and more than a score of public schools, for the most part housed in handsome stone and brick buildings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
In consequence of these changes we shall hereafter be deprived of your valuable assistance in the collegiate institute.
From A Man of Honor by George Cary Eggleston
It is the oldest collegiate institute in the State, having been chartered in 1833, and was designed from the outset for both sexes.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He knew next to nobody in or about Philadelphia outside the precincts of the collegiate institute, and to hunt up acquaintances inside that institution was naturally enough not exactly to his taste.
From A Man of Honor by George Cary Eggleston
Arriving in Philadelphia about nine o'clock the next day, Mr. Billy ate a hasty breakfast and proceeded to the little collegiate institute in which Robert had once been a professor, as the reader will remember.
From A Man of Honor by George Cary Eggleston
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