Educational HistoryEducational ObjectivesEducational PhilosophyElementary Secondary EducationPublic EducationState Boards of EducationTeacher AssociationsThe Lyceum movement began as an attempt to improve elementary school education and promote free public education. After 1839 the focus of the Lyceum moved toward...
In his 1838 address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln, then an Illinois state congressman, told his audience that the most serious threat to America’s political institutions did not come from a foreign invader. “At what point then is the approach of danger to be...
I had before this given one or two lectures before a Female Lyceum, formed by my pupils and some of their friends. At first I gave these health lectures, as they were termed, to the young ladies of my school, and their particular friends whom they were allowed to invite, once in two...
Emerson returned to the United States on October 9, 1833. Seeing the budding Lyceum movement, which provided lectures on all sorts of topics, Emerson saw a possible career as a lecturer. On November 5, 1833, he gave his first speech, discussing “The Uses of Natural History” in Boston. ...
One conclusion we might glean from Hochschild's history lesson is the fragility of our freedoms. As Abraham Lincoln declared in his Lyceum speech of 1838—another time of lynch mobs and the denial of basic liberties (for abolitionists, Native Americans, and Mormons, among others)—the danger ...
Stoker's real claim-to-fame in his lifetime was his work as assistant and manager for the then famous Shakespearean actor Henry Irving and the Lyceum Theater in London. Irving more or less controlled the Lyceum, and he became so well regarded that he was knighted by the British Crown. ...
Lincoln delivers speech, “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions,” at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. He addresses the issue of slavery. He declares, “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for instance,...
HUB Lyceum Speaking on “Resistance, Redress, and the Day of Remembrance,” I will link the camp resistance inWe Hereby Refuseto the constitutional stand for redress brought forward by the first Day of Remembrance, for the University of Washington Nikkei Student Union. Registerhere. ...
whose previous incarnations have included Lyceum and Life eateries, and can boast one of the most stunning ceilings anywhere in the city.Where once,as Life,it was all pop art iconography now it's cherubs and an elaborate ceiling fresco which Michelangelo would be proud of.A richly coloured din...
But it was not long before James Redpath, head of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, urged her to devote all of her efforts to public speaking. Daniel urged her to accept the invitation. For almost a quarter of a century, Mary lectured about women’s rights and other reform topics “in every ...