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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][4] Leaders included[5] George Bancroft, Timothy Claxton,[6] James T. Fields, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Prescott, William D. Ticknor,[7] and Amasa Walker.[8] Among the many lecturers:[9] Nehemiah Adams, J.A. Bolles, David Paul Brown,[11] Rufus Choate, William M. Cornell,[10] C.C. Emerson, James Pollard Espy,[11] Edward Everett, Dr. Grigg,[11] George S. Hillard,[12] Oliver Wendell Holmes,[13] Dr. C.T. Jackson,[14] N. Jones,[9] 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. DebatesSome of the questions formally debated by members:
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References1. ^{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xX4BAAAAYAAJ |title=Boston Almanac |year= 1838 }} 2. ^{{Citation |publisher = Otis, Broaders and company |publication-place = Boston |title = Bowen's picture of Boston |edition= 3rd |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6905756M/Bowen's_picture_of_Boston |author = Abel Bowen |publication-date = 1838 |oclc = 5204074 }} 3. ^{{cite journal |author=Helen R. Deese and Guy R. Woodall |year=1986 |title=A Calendar of Lectures Presented by the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1829-1847) |journal=Studies in the American Renaissance }} 4. ^{{citation |title=Elocution class of the Boston Lyceum |work= The Essayist |volume=1, |number=4 |date= April 1832 }} 5. ^{{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/pocketalmanackfo1844amer |title=Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1844 }} 6. ^{{citation |author=James D. Watkinson |title=Useful Knowledge? Concepts, Values, and Access in American Education, 1776-1840 |work=History of Education Quarterly |volume= 30 |year= 1990 }} 7. ^{{citation |title=Old Corner Bookstore |work=New England Magazine|date= November 1903 }} 8. ^{{citation |title=Memorial Biographies of New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1853-1855 |volume= 7 |year= 1907 }} 9. ^1 2 3 4 {{citation |title=American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 }} 10. ^{{citation |title=Daily Atlas |location=Boston |date=February 16, 1842 }} 11. ^{{citation |title=Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum |location=Boston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVAEAAAAYAAJ |date=March 15, 1834}} 12. ^{{citation |title=Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum |location=Boston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVAEAAAAYAAJ |date=January 1, 1834 }} 13. ^1 2 {{citation |title=Daily Atlas |location=Boston |date=September 8, 1841 }} 14. ^{{citation |title=Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum |location=Boston |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVAEAAAAYAAJ |date=January 15, 1834 }} 15. ^{{citation |title=Daily Atlas |location=Boston |date=March 23, 1841 }} 16. ^{{citation |author=Ottavio M. Casale |title=The Battle of Boston: A Revaluation of Poe's Lyceum Appearance |work= American Literature |volume= 45 |year= 1973 }} 17. ^{{citation |author=Katherine Hemple Prown |title=The Cavalier and the Syren: Edgar Allan Poe, Cornelia Wells Walter, and the Boston Lyceum Incident |work= New England Quarterly |volume= 66 |year=1993 }} 18. ^{{citation |author=Kent P. Ljungquist |title=Poe's 'Al Aaraaf' and the Boston Lyceum: Contributions to Primary and Secondary Bibliography |work=Victorian Periodicals Review |volume= 28 |year= 1995 }} 19. ^{{citation |author=John Osborne Sargent |title= 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 |location= New York |publisher= Wiley and Putnam |year= 1844}} 20. ^{{citation |title=Employment of time: lecture before the Boston Lyceum, delivered in the Federal Street Theatre, February 18, 1846 |work=Works of Charles Sumner |volume= 1 |location= Boston |publisher= Lee and Shepard |year= 1870 }} Further reading
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