Examples of academy

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In these instances, the schools frequently served as academies where elite men gathered to engage in literary pursuits.
Around 30 per cent had been educated at private academies run by members of the clergy.
I envision a move to create interactive projects (musicians/electronics) in the major academies, building collaborative relationships between performers and composers.
We regard the role of literature, and of the language academies, to be limited.
Governments, intellectuals, academies have failed to engineer the modernization process.
As for the arteriosclerotic, a still more restrictive daily regimen is advised, with renunciation of academies, social gatherings and café life.
There were now newer, different institutions, societies and academies for artistic practice as opposed to art appreciation.
She argues that women at the academies self-consciously created themselves as participants in the civil society of the young republic.
Would any of the graduates of the female academies have self-identified as, say, a theologian or an astronomer?
One of the principal functions of the schools, the academies, is to educate future practitioners.
However, none of the early balloonists was a member of the major royal academies.
Many prominent cameralists were involved in the founding of the mining academies.
Women remained active on the periphery of the academies - in anatomy, botany, mathematics, physics, and other fields - and won prizes for their scientific work.
The older colleges, which traced their history back to the eighteenth century's" dissenting academies" had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed.
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