Word: preceptors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Informal is hardly the word for it. Precepts often held on the campus lawn, or in the tap room of Nassau Travern. About half of them are successful, depending mainly on the ability of the preceptor and how well the group keeps up with assignments...
Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton, called Gauss to Old Nassau in 1905 as a part of his famed pioneering preceptorial system. Within eight years Preceptor Gauss became head of the department of Modern Languages, There he stayed until 1925 when the job of Dean of the College opened. Everybody thought of capable Gauss. The students sang...
...anti-Wallacemen were deaf. In the hottest terms, Bailey denounced Wallace as the preceptor of wild economics, a "dangerous" man whom it would be "immoral" to confirm. The caucus broke up, with nothing but a bitter taste in everyone's mouth...
...Jefferson, Adams wrote to Rush: "I am bold to say I was his preceptor in politicks and taught him everything that has been good and solid in his whole political conduct." Three years later Adams was "shuddering" at "the calamities which I fear his conduct is preparing for his country...
...readers of Spanish. Says Translator Porter: "[It] is without dispute The Novel of the past century, not only for Mexico but for all Spanish-speaking countries." One press in Barcelona printed a million-odd copies annually. For millions of common people The Itching Parrot has been editorial page, moral preceptor, soapbox speech, liberalistic handbook, underground leaflet, scandal sheet, pulp-thriller, comic strip, and dirty-joke book. It has also been-and still is-an engaging story in which is made wonderfully vivid, as Mrs. Porter says, "the sprawling, teeming, swarming people of Mexico, ragged, eternally cheated . . . insatiably and hopelessly hungry...