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When he left the Yale faculty he had accepted the provostship of Avon Old Farms School, experimental venture in secondary education.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the seigniorial courts, say the registers, are infested with a crowd of officials of every description, seigniorial sergeants, mounted and unmounted officers, keepers of the provostship of the funds, guards of the constabulary.

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

The town of Ellwangen, which grew up round the abbey and received the status of a town about the middle of the 14th century, was until 1803 the capital of the provostship.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

It was not till the time of Saint Louis that, with the appointment of �tienne Boileau, the provostship of Paris became a pr�v�t� en garde, i.e. a public office no longer put up to sale.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Was it a vague presentiment of the three hundred and seventy livres, sixteen sous, eight farthings, which the future King Charles VII. was to cut off from the provostship in the following year?

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence