Word: ephor
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...classrooms across the U.S. one day in 1901, close to 1,000 high-school seniors sat down to write in their bluebooks the answers to such questions as: "What are the main lines of Macaulay's comparison of Milton with Dante? . . . Define archon, ephor, demagogue, dicastery, tyrant . . ." These were the first questions, and the boys & girls were the first guinea pigs of a new testing institution: the College Entrance Examination Board...
...Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University. He is best known for his book on "The Meaning of Ephor", and at the time of his death, was working on a treatise of some portions of the Book of Judges, which was nearly ready for publication...
...government of the institution consists of a Prytanis (president), an Ephor or Dean, and a Syncletus or Senate, composed of five professors from each school. Each school is governed by its faculty, and annually elects five of its number to represent it in the senate. The professors are almost all Greeks, who have been sent to Germany, France and England for their advanced education. The departments of Philology and Law are particularly rich in able and learned instructors...
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