preceptor

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many selections for these occasions came from the Kentucky "Preceptor," rich in such utterance as Pitt's "Speech on the Slave Trade."

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron

The Preceptor must watch attentively for every new exhibition of the child's radical faculties, and obey them as divine laws.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

The declamations were obtained principally from a book called "The Kentucky Preceptor," which volume Mrs. Crawford gave me as a souvenir of my visit.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Upper and central Italy.—The houses or preceptories of the order of the Temple in this province were very numerous, and were all under the immediate superintendence of the Grand Prior or Preceptor of Rome.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.