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Article #170 - Discussion on Lyceums

 

 

 

            Would not the object of this association be more effectually promoted by confining the subjects of its Lectures Essays Questions and discussion strictly to science?

 

[No! says the author, E. P. Barnard. First, the dangers of liquor must be taught; as must, secondly, the injurious effects of tobacco.]

 

Article #169 - Purpose of Lyceum

 

  Question 9th

            Can any systematic course of Investigation of Scientific Subjects be persued [sic]

by this association

[The author, Eus. Barnard, answers in the affirmative, urging that all Lyceum members should and can study science and from it learn the rules of nature.]

 

 

Article #168 - Education

 

A question having been introduced relative to confining all Questions & Essays &c to scientific subjects.

            Two answers have been given & thinking justice has not yet been done the subject I propose submitting a few remarks in reference to it, and the last answer is the object of Lyceums is mutual improvement & the acquisition of knowledge it follows as a selfevident truth the field of investigation should be equally extensive. In order that we should become interested in our

Article #165 - Education

 

 

            On Man

 

            The noblest and Most fitting study of Mankind is Man. 1st What is the intended object of his creation, and 2nd is he as a Rational Creature endeavouring to ascertain that fact and filling up the Measure of his destiny.

Article #162 - Music

 

[The author differs with another Lyceum member, Otley Vernon, who argued for the study of music, saying that since this is a God-given attribute it should be cultivated.]

 

Article #161 - Nature

 

When the temperature of the atmosphere is above the freezing point, why do not the snow and ice instantly return to water?

[F. D. answers this.]

Article #153 - Preserving Meat

[The author, Emma Malin, explains the process of salt preserving meat.)

Article #152 - Lyceums

 

 Lyceums

Important conditions requisite for the permanency of lyceums

To have them established upon a firm moral basis, (for thus they live). To have an holiness of purpose, a purity of aspiration

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...but when we truly live, each day adds strength and love to life -- the recollections of the past

become the pleasure of the present, and the duties of the present bring the happiness of the future.

 

Article #150 - Temperatures

 

What proof have we that the north

termperate zone was once warmer than

it now is.

 

[The author, probably Jabez Baily, gives as evidence the earth’s strata and the fossils found in it.]

Article #139 - Mathematics

 

How is a knowledge of the science of Mathematics useful to persons in the various pursuits of life?

 

            A knowledge of Mathematics which Teaches us the method of ascertaining the exact

 

 

number magnitude quantity or value of things is indispensably necessary to enable us to transact any branch of business with safety to ourselves.

 

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