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lyceum

[lahy-see-uhm] / laɪˈsi əm /




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With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Per�n delved into the ancient authors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.

From Time Magazine Archive

To these graphic pictures of the "lyceum lecturer" we would add one more which was given by Mr. J.W.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

Henry Clay rose to fame, by a sudden impulse at the meeting of a lyceum in Lexington.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

There were held the singing schools, and the lyceum of long ago; also several fall terms of high schools; among the teachers were Mark Bailey, William E. Bunten, and Henry M. Putney.

From Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire by Mills, Ella




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