They gave a permanent bias and coloring to the genius and taste and style, in all their subsequent years, to men distinguished for their talents, whom the lyceums discovered and trained, who shone splendidly in after life.
As Samson found the honey, so these lyceums discovered talent where it would be looked for least.
She early made her way into the lyceums and some pulpits never before open to woman.
The more liberal lyceums are open to her, and she is herself the subject of the most popular lectures now before the public.
She has more invitations to speak before the first-class lyceums of the country, at two hundred dollars an evening, than she can accept, and draws crowded houses wherever she goes.
The morals of those Imperial lyceums are really shocking.
In Paris, you know, they had the courage to change the name of one of the great lyceums into the Lyceum Lakanal.
The contributions of the government for the maintenance of the lyceums being on a somewhat parsimonious scale, every kind of economy is practiced.
These five lyceums of Paris, with their 7500 day scholars and boarders, and the eighty lyceums in the provinces, have precisely the same programme and rules of government throughout.
The most famous as well as the largest of the lyceums of Paris is the Lycee Descartes, formerly called the Lycee Louis-le-Grand.
Not only has Paris the best professors, but also the best boys, many having been sent thither by their parents from the provincial lyceums on their displaying marked ability and intelligence.
Their superiority over the nationallyceums leads to the fact of their being as well attended as the latter, although pupils at the Jesuits' colleges pay three times as much as at the government schools.
The threelyceums above mentioned are on the left bank, the remaining two on the right bank, of the Seine.
From a sanitary point of view the lyceums do not stand high by any means.
As will have been seen, the life led by the boarders at the lyceums is pretty irksome and severe.
Toward the end of each scholastic year, about July, ten or a dozen of the brightest youths are selected from each of the classes in the lyceums of Paris, and are made to undergo an examination in composition at the Sorbonne.
Vincent of Paul, which, as we have seen, initiates the children in our lyceums and colleges, has entered into the polytechnic school and into every branch of the civil administration.
Vincent of Paul to-day are more than nine hundred in number; they penetrate every rank of society, and even into the lyceums and colleges, where they affiliate even the children under the title of aspirants.
It is otherwise with reference to the lyceums and colleges, where the religious have secured a greater influence over the pupils, though rationalists and sceptics still continue to fill some of the chairs.
Little by little they made way for or became annexed to the lyceums which one after another were founded wherever needed.
At the outset it was ordered that all the masters, censors, and teachers in the great intermediate schools or lyceums should be celibates!
The field was strewn with the corpses, not of such rude and stalwart peasants as had hitherto filled the ranks of opposing armies, but of gentle youth from French lyceums and Prussian universities.
The general curricula in the lyceums included the Romanian language, history, literature, the physical sciences, mathematics, and music.
Before being accepted in a university, all graduates of lyceums were required to have passed the baccalaureate, a special comprehensive examination given after all graduation requirements had been met.
This explains and justifies the refusal of the German universities to regard the leaving certificates of the Russian lyceums as equivalent to the Abiturienten certificate of the German schools.
The higher classes in the girls' lyceums are taught chiefly by men teachers.
The lyceumsgive a very good education (mathematics is obligatory), but as yet there are no ordinary secondary schools whose leaving examinations are equivalent to the Abiturientenexamen of the Gymnasiums.
None of these lyceums (except the humanistic lyceum for girls in Moscow), are equivalent to the German Gymnasiums or Realgymnasiums, nor even to the Oberrealschulen or Realschulen.
The lyceumsof the large cities make foreign languages compulsory also; but these institutions are in the minority.
The Law of Separation deprives communes of the right to give any subventions for religious worship--though the State inscribes on its own budget the stipends to chaplains of lyceums frequented by children of the rich, notwithstanding Art.
Article II with sweet inconsistency declares that "the Republic neither recognizes nor subsidizes any cult," and immediately after it inscribes on the Public Budget the service of aumoniers of state lyceums and colleges.
Lyceums were also established in all the important towns, and the study of ancient languages, which had been abolished during the Revolution, was again made obligatory in public education.
The lyceums were organized; the magistrates again wore official robes, and were also invested with some importance.
These lyceums I frequented, and participated in the discussions.
Lyceums or debating societies which met at the villages or schoolhouses were then common.
In theseLyceums the discipline was partly military, partly monastic.
The Lyceums of Buonaparte were conducted on a contrary principle; every thing was done by beat of drum, all the interior arrangements of the boys were upon a military footing.
Mrs. Adams not only addressed the home society, but gave lectures before lyceumsand educational institutions.
Some of the pupils of these institutions pass with credit the examinations of the boys' lyceumsor colleges.
He has also occasionally delivered lectures before lyceums and the like.
It should be noted that all thelyceums or government schools are in Paris, with the exception only of the Lyceum of Versailles.
The government lyceums thus correspond in a certain measure to the colleges of an English university.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lyceums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
