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  • I say what I think in lecture-halls and in discussions.

    Archive 2001-04-01 Torill 2001

  • I say what I think in lecture-halls and in discussions.

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2001

  • Church, lecture-halls and theaters gradually became impossible.

    Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

  • Strange introduction for our stranger to a seat of learning, but not out of keeping with Athens; for what could you expect of a place where there was a mob of youths and not even the pretence of control; where the poorer lived any how, and got on as they could, and the teachers themselves had no protection from the humours and caprices of the students who filled their lecture-halls?

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • They have responded in a munificent manner by establishing a school for training young men for the ministry, with accommodations for a hundred students, houses for the professors, a church, a library building, lecture-halls and all the required conveniences for a great and successful school.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • There is Athens, already the world's university; but no books, no libraries, no lecture-halls, only great teachers who walk about followed by a crowd of youths eager to drink in their words.

    Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding

  • Greek schools in his age were the Stoic, the Platonic, the Skeptic and the Pythagorean, which had each its professors in the Museum and its popular preachers in the public lecture-halls.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • In their relations amongst themselves as fellow-believers, let them not be content with the mere exchange of cold and empty formalities often connected with the organizing of banquets, receptions, consultative assemblies, and lecture-halls.

    Bahá’í Administration 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • Were not the lecture-halls half empty for the same reason?

    History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919 1922

  • It saw all the young matriculates of 1861 drawn away to the battle-field, but it refused to turn the key upon its lecture-halls.

    History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919 1922

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