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Chetham's School of Music (/ˈtʃɛtəmz/) is an independent co-educational music school in Manchester, England. Chetham's educates students between the ages of 8 and 18, all of whom enter via musical auditions.

The music school was established in 1969 from Chetham's Hospital School, founded as a charity school by Humphrey Chetham in 1653. After becoming a boys' grammar school in 1952, the school turned to music as its speciality, at the same time becoming a private school and accepting its first female students. There are approximately 300 students on roll, including a large sixth form making up around half of the school. Approximately two-thirds of students board on site, with others travelling in as day students from around Greater Manchester. The oldest parts of the school date to the 1420s, when the building was constructed as a residence for priests of the church which is now Manchester Cathedral. These parts are listed buildings housing Chetham's Library. (Full article...)

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Harrow School is a public school for boys located in Harrow on the Hill in Middlesex, England. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Harrow has many notable alumni, who are known as Old Harrovians, including seven former British Prime Ministers (including Winston Churchill and Robert Peel), and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In addition, nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

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• 1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarks on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.

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• 1635 – Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

• 2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

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• 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he reads a letter in which she expresses fears about nuclear war.

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• ... that since being closed in 1973 for desegregation, Washington School (pictured) in Ossining, New York, has been used as offices and a church?

• ... that Nelson Mandela went especially to Ohlange High School to see a grave and to place his vote in South Africa's first free election?

• ... that faced with high teacher turnover rates, Hertford County Public Schools helped build teacher housing?

Charles William Lyons SJ (January 31, 1868 – January 31, 1939) was an American Catholic priest who became the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have served as the president of four colleges. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended the local public schools before entering the wool industry. He abandoned his career in industry to enter the Society of Jesus. While a novice in Maryland, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Georgetown University as prefect. He then resumed his studies at Woodstock College, teaching intermittently at Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C. and Loyola College in Baltimore. After his ordination, he became a professor at St. Francis Xavier College in New York City and at Boston College.

In 1908, Lyons became the rector of Gonzaga College, where he remained for a year before being appointed the president of Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia. While there, he had constructed a new building for the faculty, and his tenure came to an end when he became the president of Boston College in 1914. He continued the major construction plan of his predecessor, overseeing the completion of St. Mary's Hall and Alumni Field. He also dealt with the severe downturn in enrollment due to World War I. His term came to an end in 1919, and for the next several years, he taught at Boston College, was a priest at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York, oversaw the construction of Weston College, and led retreats around the country. (Full article...)

• ... that the sculptor and schoolteacher Arvīds Brastiņš led a group of Latvian pagans in the post-war United States?
• ... that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
• ... that an Indiana newspaper donated its TV station to the local high school instead of shutting it down?
• ... that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university?
• ... that while serving in the Bolivian parliament, legislator Emeliana Aiza took night courses to receive her high school baccalaureate?
• ...that in 1819, members of the Catholic Tübingen school first published the Theologische Quartalschrift, which remains in print as the oldest journal of Catholic theology in the world?
• ... that Jean Sibelius likely wrote his first composition, Water Droplets, as a schoolboy?
• ... that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history?