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“He could dumb down the important things,” she said, “so that we would leave the church service or leave the lecture taking something with us.”

Other somewhat more didactic or exposition-heavy passages include a professor giving a brief lecture about the persistent and pernicious British class system.

On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum.

You may reasonably lecture your teenager on the dangers of drinking too much, yet you did exactly that on occasion when you were in college.

Arriving early to a large college lecture and being the only person not on his phone is an uncomfortable feeling.