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Preceptorial

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pre·cep·tor  (pr-sptr, prsptr)
n.
1. A teacher; an instructor.
2. An expert or specialist, such as a physician, who gives practical experience and training to a student, especially of medicine or nursing.
3. The head of a preceptory.

[Middle English, from Latin praeceptor, from praecipere, to teach; see precept.]

precep·tori·al (prsp-tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
precep·tori·al·ly adv.


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Parts II-IV, which are the heart of the book, recount the future president's efforts to improve Princeton and elevate it to the first rank of American universities through significant expansion of the campus footprint, but also, much more importantly, by far-reaching curriculum reforms and the introduction of the preceptorial system.
The moral is a preceptorial voice, a statement of evaluative power and of mentorial function.
The residency was a good time, part preceptorial, part academic, a time of shaping the future.
 
 
 
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