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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room for college or school recitations.
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Examples
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Every professor-teacher can bear witness to the truism that one hour in the recitation-room is fully equal, in its drain upon the vital energy, to two passed in private study or authorship.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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The utmost courtesy prevails, both in the recitation-room and in the streets.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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And they went into the recitation-room talking it over.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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The number of hours that he is compelled, by the college curriculum, to pass per week in the recitation-room is seldom less than fifteen, and may be as high as twenty.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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She had begun her freshman year by opening the door into Dr. Hinsdale's recitation-room, while a popular senior course was in session.
Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde
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It was thought that our new brick school-house, with seven school-rooms, one recitation-room, and office, would furnish accommodations to all pupils for several years to come.
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890 Various
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The greedy lungs of fifty hot-blooded boys suck the oxygen from the air he breathes in his recitation-room.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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It will be seen, from what has been said, that Oberlin, outside the recitation-room, has two distinct codes of rules, one for the girls and one for the boys.
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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Thus, when the legal conqueror of Breachy Mr. BLODGETT entered that principal recitation-room of the Macassar, formally known as the Cackleorium, she had no difficulty in explaining away the panic.
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Marshall and his brother obtained instruction during this period from the little white children who attended school, after hours, using "an old hay loft back of a Mr. Sanders's Tavern" for a recitation-room, and paying their teachers with cakes and candies bought with odd pennies gathered here and there.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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