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lyceum

[lahy-see-uhm] / laɪˈsi əm /




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He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Per�n delved into the ancient authors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Resigning his commission in 1818, he was successively engaged as teacher in the gymnasium at Augsburg and in the progymnasium and lyceum at Landshut.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

Harper of New York, who gave in his remarks a delightful pen portrait of Doctor Holmes, the lyceum lecturer, which we have elsewhere quoted.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

It is a cardinal principle with lyceum workers, however, to make every possible effort to get through to their engagements at whatever inconvenience or cost.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick




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