Boston Lyceum

The Boston Lyceum (est.1829)[1] of Boston, Massachusetts was a civic association dedicated to popular education in the form of "lectures, discussions, ... declamation," and writing contests.[2] It began "in Chauncy Hall on 25 June 1829. On 13 August 1829 it formed its classes and made provisions for lectures and debates."[3] Annual members' "exhibitions" of elocution took place in various venues around town, such as the Masonic Temple (1832), Tremont Hall (1839) and the Odeon (1840).[4][5] Leaders included[6] George Bancroft, Timothy Claxton,[7] James T. Fields, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Prescott, William D. Ticknor,[8] and Amasa Walker.[9] Among the many lecturers:[4] Nehemiah Adams, J.A. Bolles, David Paul Brown,[10] Rufus Choate, William M. Cornell,[11] C.C. Emerson, James Pollard Espy,[10] Edward Everett, Dr. Grigg,[12] George S. Hillard,[13] Oliver Wendell Holmes,[10] Dr. C.T. Jackson,[14] N. Jones,[4] Rev. John Pierpont,[15] Edgar Allan Poe,[16][17][18] John Osborne Sargent,[19] William H. Simmons, Charles Sumner,[20] B.B. Thatcher, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Amasa Walker, and E.M.P. Wells.

Debates

Some of the questions formally debated by members:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Boston Almanac, 1838
  2. ↑ Abel Bowen (1838), Bowen's picture of Boston (3rd ed.), Boston: Otis, Broaders and company, OCLC 5204074
  3. ↑ Helen R. Deese and Guy R. Woodall (1986). "A Calendar of Lectures Presented by the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1829-1847)". Studies in the American Renaissance.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  5. ↑ "Elocution class of the Boston Lyceum", The Essayist 1, (4), April 1832
  6. ↑ Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1844
  7. ↑ James D. Watkinson (1990), "Useful Knowledge? Concepts, Values, and Access in American Education, 1776-1840", History of Education Quarterly 30
  8. ↑ "Old Corner Bookstore", New England Magazine, November 1903
  9. ↑ Memorial Biographies of New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1853-1855 7, 1907
  10. 1 2 3 Daily Atlas, Boston, September 8, 1841
  11. ↑ Daily Atlas, Boston, February 16, 1842
  12. ↑ Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum, Boston, March 15, 1834
  13. ↑ Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum, Boston, January 1, 1834
  14. ↑ Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum, Boston, January 15, 1834
  15. ↑ Daily Atlas, Boston, March 23, 1841
  16. ↑ Ottavio M. Casale (1973), "The Battle of Boston: A Revaluation of Poe's Lyceum Appearance", American Literature 45
  17. ↑ Katherine Hemple Prown (1993), "The Cavalier and the Syren: Edgar Allan Poe, Cornelia Wells Walter, and the Boston Lyceum Incident", New England Quarterly 66
  18. ↑ Kent P. Ljungquist (1995), "Poe's 'Al Aaraaf' and the Boston Lyceum: Contributions to Primary and Secondary Bibliography", Victorian Periodicals Review 28
  19. ↑ John Osborne Sargent (1844), A Lecture on the late improvements in steam navigation and the arts of naval warfare, with a brief notice of Ericsson's caloric engine, delivered before the Boston Lyceum, New York: Wiley and Putnam
  20. ↑ "Employment of time: lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846", Works of Charles Sumner (Boston: Lee and Shepard) 1, 1870

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