Word: lyceum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week two or three unknown undergraduates climbed the Lampson Lyceum tower and painted the lions and clock hands. The affair is being investigated and it is expected that the men will be punished in the near future...
...building will be the fourth place in which business has been done in the history of the Society, including Drury Hall on Brattle Square, Dane Hall and Lyceum Hall in which the Coop is now installed...
...weak schools. " Eighty warm, comfortable buses transport 2,510 children daily to the well equipped schools where they are taught by trained teachers." So speaks, not Mr. Babbitt, but the United States Department of the Interior. The central schools have auditoriums, community rooms, gymnasiums, athletic fields, libraries, lyceum courses. And the motor-drawn scholars are never-well, hardly ever - late to school...
...young man Lewis had a wandering foot; he worked in various coal mines. He showed early power of leadership, being chosen Manager of his home ball team, President of the Debating Lyceum and Athletic Club, finally Justice of the Peace. He was active in union politics in the State of Illinois...
...provide one or more courses of lectures of the highest character on literary and scientific subjects". It was an agreement which was not only creditable to the City of Cambridge, but singularly consistent with the thrifty foresight of Mr. Dowse. This foundation, established in the Golden Age of lyceum lectures, at once attracted the most brilliant and notable of speakers. The names of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor of these masters...