Word: deans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While at the University of Cambridge all the heads of colleges except two - the provost of King's and the president of Queen's - are uniformly known as "masters," there is a curious variety of title at Oxford. The head of Christ Church is the dean, who is in fact the dean of the cathedral of Oxford; All Souls, Keble, New and Wadham have wardens; Brasenose, Jesus and all the halls, or smaller colleges, have principals; Exeter and Lincoln have rectors; Oriel, Queen's and Worcester have provosts; Corpus Christi, Magdalen, St. John's and Trinity have presidents; University...
...dean requests all seniors who wish to obtain situations as teachers after their graduation to inform him in writing of their qualifications and the particular branches they wish to teach, as principals of academies and others are in occasional correspondence with him to obtain teachers from Harvard in their schools...
Printed announcements in regard to commencement parts have been sent by the dean to those seniors who have chosen subjects...
...besides these university examinations, each college has its own yearly examinations, in addition to others for scholarships and prizes; and the student must give reasonable satisfaction in these yearly examinations, or, failing to do so, be subject first, to admonition by the dean, and, should that be insufficient, to "being sent down" for a longer or shorter time...
...that the instruction given at these conferences coincided very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them...