lyceum
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With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Per�n delved into the ancient authors.
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He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.
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A. Jonas, Quincy, same date: H. Greeley delivered a lecture before our lyceum last evening—a large crowd to hear him.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
Among the many subjects that Doctor Holmes touched upon in these lyceum lectures was a fine, witty, and remarkably just criticism on the English Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
Russian statesman, cousin of Princes Petr and Mikhail Gorchakov, was born on the 16th of July 1798, and was educated at the lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo, where he had the poet Pushkin as a school-fellow.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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