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
I have received your letter—your moral lecture rather; and be assured, my dear, your monitorial lessons and advice shall be attended to.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
Further, the same causes which reduced the control of masters, also embarrassed the upper boys in their monitorial duties.
From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
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