The past generation, with reference to bygone modes of thought and fashion.
1800. [Fenno wishes] to restore the discipline of the old school. It is a pity this young man is not under the Jurisdiction of the old school; perhaps experience might alter his manners.—The Aurora, Phila., April 17.
1806. The aristocratical prejudices of the “Old school.”—Corr. Balt. Ev. Post, March 10, p. 2/2.
1808. A modest editor of the old school is kind enough to pronounce us incorrigible.—The Repertory (Boston), July 5.
1817. [Governor Strong is a] gentleman of the old school. He is a soldier and a captain, in the estimation of Washington, of the highest order.—Mass. Spy, April 2: from the [New] Hampshire Gazette.
1818. Now Wistar is gone, the last of that old school, by whose labours the fabrick has been reared so high.—Eulogy of Dr. Caspar Wistar, by Chief Justice William Tilghman of Pennsylvania.
1842. He was an eminent green grocer in Pickle alley, and a perfect gentleman of the old school; or, rather, he charmingly blended the simplicity and suavity of the old, with the more showy elegance of the new.—Yale Lit. Mag., vii. 230 (March).
1842. A gentleman of Maryland, one of the olden time, a gentleman of the old school.—Mr. Wise of Virginia, House of Repr., May 11: Cong. Globe, p. 491.
1850. Col. B. is a gentleman of the old school, and reminds me of my sporting days in Virginia.—James Weir, ‘Lonz Powers,’ i. 24 (Phila.).
