Lexicographical Neighbors of Athenaeums
Literary usage of Athenaeums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"The influence which this educational clement is fitted to exert on athenaeums
and mechanics institutions is great. They are dependent entirely on personal ..."
2. The History of Educational Legislation in Ohio from 1803 to 1850 by Edward Alanson Miller (1920)
"LYCEUMS, INSTITUTES, athenaeums, AND LITERARY SOCIETIES In addition to the library
societies, there were frequent incorporations of lyceums, ..."
3. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1838)
"The other two athenaeums, ... yearly for the universities alone, independently
of the cost of the athenaeums and clinical schools, is too great for a small ..."
4. Memoirs of My Dead Life by George Moore (1920)
"Not one, but twenty copies of the athenaeums in a house where never a book was read.
... 'Oh, they are my athenaeums,' she said, 'I always used to read the ..."
5. Education of Business Men in Europe: A Report to the American Bankers by Edmund Janes James (1893)
"Another measure, not less favorable to its increase, was the organization, in
1880, of the intermediate instruction in the athenaeums of the small towns, ..."
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