monitorial
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In eighteenth-century America, one-room schoolhouses employed the monitorial method, in which older students evaluated the recitations of younger ones.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2014
"You press me closely," with an amused scrutiny of the captain's monitorial face.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
As the numbers increased he established a monitorial system, by which many of the lesser breaches of discipline were dealt with by the boys themselves.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
To this superior invisible aid he owed his appointment, at the age of seven years, to be usher in a school, before the monitorial system of teaching was thought of.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
