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The Lyceum ( Ancient Greek : Λύκειον, Lykeion ) was a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo of aurora" or "Apollo the enlighter"). It was best known for its connection with Aristotle , who was teaching while walking around the temple, rendering it ...

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Church of England or of Rome as the medium of those superior ablutions described above, only that I think the Unitarian Church, like the Lyceum, as yet an open and uncommitted organ, free to admit the ministrations of any inspired man that shall pass by: whilst the other churches are committed and will exclude him.

Lyceum and the other places usually cited, are near the middle--what need have we to go further and seek beyond Place, admitting as we do that we refer in every instance to a place?

At the Lyceum, the lieutenant governor faced down Nicholas Katzenbach and John Doar and demanded that the marshals stop shooting tear gas.

Attorney General John Doar by his side and flanked by a squad of marshals still wearing battle helmets, drove in a battered Border Patrol car to the Lyceum back door to register as a junior in the College of Liberal Arts as a transfer student.

The Moscow Lyceum in Memory of Tsarevich Nikolay Alex-androvich was founded in 1868 on funds donated by Katkov and others.

Lyceum and dying of boredom in the Ministry of Justice, Wrangel decided to join a number of his classmates in applying for a post in Siberia.

Some of his Lyceum verses are exercises in the forms practiced by Zhukovsky and Derzhavin, but by far the greater part belong to the favorite Arzamasian kinds of fugitive poetry, friendly epistles, and Anacreontic lyrics.

Stevenson sent them an appeal for help that the president of the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Associations had addressed to the White House.

That morning three thousand shoemakers met in the Lyceum Hall in Lynn and set up committees of 100 to post the names of scabs, to guard against violence, to make sure shoes would not be sent out to be finished elsewhere.

The Press, the Pulpit, and the Lyceum, with rare and brave exceptions, met the formidable array of Facts with which the work bristled, by sciolistic criticisms, bigoted denunciations, or timid, faint praise.

Leng had, after all, been a taxonomist, collector, and member of the Lyceum.

We want a reorganized cuisine of invalidism perhaps as much as the culinary, reform, for which our lyceum lecturers, and others who live much at hotels and taverns, are so urgent.

Fitzjohn’s guest to a meeting of the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks at the Lyceum, and had the felicity of seeing there that amazing figure, the Duke of Norfolk, who rolled in looking for all the world like a gross publican, and presided over the dinner in dirty linen and an old blue coat.

The Haymarket Theatre being closed, owing to the preoccupation of the management in the Court of Chancery, the Surrey, on the south bank of the river devoting itself to burlettas that were not at all the thing for ladies, the Regency fast sinking into decay, and both the Lyceum and the Olympic staging displays that resembled Astley's circuses, lovers of the drama were obliged either to stay at home, or to attend a succession of indifferent plays put on at Drury Lane, or at the Sans Pareil.

Shottum SUBJECTS OF CORRESPONDENCENatural history, anthropology, the Lyceum POSITION Owner, Shottum's Cabinet of Natural Productions and Curiosities New York DATES OF CORRESPONDENCE18691881 CORRESPONDENTProf.