headmaster
noun
the person in charge of a private school.
headmastership
-
a word derived from
headmaster.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Gamage relinquished the headmastership of St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y., after 14 years' tenure, took with him three close associates, founded the Pawling School in 1908.
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St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job.
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He took the headmastership of a school endowed by his father, entered Congress as a New Dealer in 1936.
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When urbane Dwight Raymond Meigs resigned his headmastership in 1922 Mr. Wendell became treasurer of The Hill School.
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Soon afterwards the headmastership of Codrington College fell vacant, and Dr. Hinds was appointed thereto by Bishop’ Howley.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
