preceptorial
- a word derived from preceptor.
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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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This is the most important development since the introduction of the preceptorial system during Woodrow Wilson's regime as president.
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Cuomo, overcompensating for his preceptorial manner, turned almost surly.
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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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The one great difficulty of the preceptorial system is its cost.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul