athenaeums

She forms stock companies, and builds athenaeums; she is at the head of working guilds; she organizes classes, teaches what she knows, while she is being taught what she did not know; and in mental activity, and labor which is not routine, has renewed her youth, and added to her attractions.

Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly Various 1904

I look upon mechanics 'institutions and athenaeums as vitally important to the well-being of society.

Speeches: Literary and Social Charles Dickens 1841

It is because of these things that I look upon mechanics’ institutions and athenaeums as vitally important to the well-being of society.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

It is not every young man of the present day who would have the self-denial to spend his youth, like Jacinto, in a town where there are neither theatres, nor opera bouffe, nor dancers, nor philosophers, nor athenaeums, nor magazines, nor congresses, nor any other kind of diversions or entertainments. "

Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881

"It is only natural; accustomed as you are to enter athenaeums and clubs, and academies and congresses without any ceremony, you think that you can enter a temple in which the

Dona Perfecta Benito P��rez Gald��s 1881