Word: lyceum
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Going to France where the student is kept until a later age under the supervision of instructors than with us, we find in the lyceum careful discipline and school-boy training...
...American college, like the English school and French lyceum have daily recitations for two purposes,-your attendance and preparation whether you feel like it or not. The theory is that intellectual men, political men, all men of any prominence must apply their minds under pressure to new matter at short notice and for this you are trained, in meeting your tasks day by day. It would doubtless be much pleasanter to both students and instructors, were it differently arranged. The American college is a social institution. It is right that it should be so. It gives a charm and usefulness...
...magazine under the title of the "Literary Cabinet," in 1806, the proceeds of which were to educate the poor students. To quote, "unfortunately for the poor students," the Cubinet died in less than a year after its birth. Harvard's first venture was a semi-monthly, the "Harvard Lyceum", which appeared in 1810, with Edward Everett on its staff; but it also was short-lived. Three or four other literary ventures were made at Yale but they all followed in the steps of the "Cabinet"until in 1839 the "Yale Lit" was founded, and this is now the foremost...
Students wishing to dispose of partly worn clothing will receive highest cash price by leaving order at Lyons. Ask for order box, Lyceum Building, Billiard Hall...
Student wishing to dispose of partly worn clothing will receive highest cash price by leaving order at Lyons. Ask for order box, Lyceum Building, Billiard Hall...