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- noun Plural form of
lyceum .
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Examples
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They were often called lyceums and there was a lot of learning going on!
unknown title 2009
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The pupils of the primary schools felt a quasi-dependence on the Emperor; those of the lyceums were the very children of patronage, for the cheapness of their education, combined with their semi-military uniforms and habits, impressed at every turn on them and their families the immanence of the Empire.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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It set up exchange programs with the main lyceums in Brooklyn and New York, in which Wilson herself participated.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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These lesson sheets were so successful in helping children learn that they were later taken up by other, more conservative Spiritualist lyceums.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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It set up exchange programs with the main lyceums in Brooklyn and New York, in which Wilson herself participated.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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These lesson sheets were so successful in helping children learn that they were later taken up by other, more conservative Spiritualist lyceums.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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These communications could be dramatic and even disconcerting the mediums, of course, maintained that they could not control the free spirits, so generally speaking, Spiritualists did not go into trances in their children's lyceums.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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These communications could be dramatic and even disconcerting the mediums, of course, maintained that they could not control the free spirits, so generally speaking, Spiritualists did not go into trances in their children's lyceums.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2011
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