pupilage
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Down to the year 1832, the system of common law pleading and practice supplied the student, during the greater period of his pupilage, with little else than the most degrading and unprofitable drudgery.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
To it must be added, as a supplement, that he must be a 'made' man—made in a long hard pupilage in a stern school that appraises strictly on results.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
In accounting for it, and finding out the determining experiences of the artist's pupilage, we shall account, also, for much that came after.
From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Ernest Rhys
The transition of the son from the pupilage of childhood and youth to the independence of manhood is often trying to the filial relation.
From Hooking Watermelons 1898 by Edward Bellamy
His pupilage with Sir Joshua prevented his falling into the washed leather and warm drab errors of tone that then distinguished the English school of historical painting.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
