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...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...
After those strenuous hundred years come Hamlets whom men now living can remember. An eye-witness talks of one Henry Irving, a "travelling Hamlet" and his ovation at the Lyceum,--such as only a presidential candidate or Babe Ruth would get today. Then came Booth, the admirable nobleman, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, flawless in technique...
...Reception of welcome, Sampson Lyceum. Speakers: Hon. F. J. Rice, mayor of New Haven; Professor G. H. Nettleton, of Yale; President A. T. Hadley, of Yale, and D. L. Jacobus. M. S. Mandell, president of the Association, presided. B. E. Dirks 1S.A., gave the response. Concert: Mrs. Nancy Goodyear Andrews, Mr. J. N. Sanford, Miss Charlotte Beebe, Mr. R. P. Freemantle and Mr. A. J. Bowen, soloists...