lyceum
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When someone asked about “pét nat” wines—short for pétillant naturel, a trendy sparkling variety—one young techie pulled faces that would trigger expulsion from a Swiss lyceum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Will the extension 114 system, any better than its decayed predecessor, the old lyceum system, resist the demands of popular audiences and keep itself from slipping out of serious instruction into lively and eloquent entertainment?
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
As the parents attended these exhibitions, the contagion caught them and then followed the lyceum.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
Among the many subjects that Doctor Holmes touched upon in these lyceum lectures was a fine, witty, and remarkably just criticism on the English Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
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