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Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton, called Gauss to Old Nassau in 1905 as a part of his famed pioneering preceptorial system.

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The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side.

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This verse was added to the Princeton University "Faculty Song" in the spring of 1905, after Woodrow Wilson had announced his plans for Princeton's famed, pioneering preceptorial system.

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Pennsylvanian Hendel hurried to Princeton in 1909 on the strength of what he had read about Woodrow Wilson's preceptorial system, graduated No. 1 in his class.

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After the preceptorial letters cease the others are concerned with domestic events, health and sickness, visits or introductions, birth or death.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome