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Lyceum

noun

(pl. E. lyceums, L. lycea)

A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12. Synonyms: Gymnasium, lycee, middle school, secondary school.

A public hall for lectures and concerts.

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... Monsieur Perrault had assisted Vaura in the getting up of theatricals, she having developed such excellent histrionic powers. Perrault secretly hoped she would yet make her debut from the boards of his favourite Lyceum ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

... were discussing in detail a suggestive and exhaustive address, delivered from the proscenium box of the Calisthenic Lyceum by a notable financier on obligatory hydropathy, as accessory to the irrevocable and irreparable doctrine of evolution, which had been vehemently panegyrized by a splenetic professor of acoustics, and simultaneously denounced by a complaisant opponent as an undemonstrated romance ...

— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway

... years. On the death of Plato, he went on his travels and became the tutor of Alexander the Great, and in 335 B.C. returned to Athens after an absence of twelve years, and set up a school in the Lyceum. He taught while walking up and down the shady paths which surrounded it, from which habit he obtained the name of the Peripatetic, which has clung to his name and philosophy. His school had a great celebrity, and from it proceeded illustrious philosophers, statesmen, historians, and orators. ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord

... for her, ex officio, and without disguise,—the President of the Lyceum Club, before which ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... emigres was, like Simon Giguet, a son of Arcis. Old Goulard, his father, left the abbey of Valpreux (corruption of Val-des-Preux) to live in Arcis after the death of his wife, and he sent his son to the imperial lyceum, where Colonel Giguet had already placed his son Simon. The two schoolmates subsequently went through their legal studies in Paris together, and their intimacy was continued in the amusements of youth. They promised ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

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