Word: monitorship
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...absence of such a structure, the Chief Executive must exercise a lonely and nearly superhuman monitorship of the whole system-an undertaking that is beyond the limits of individual knowledge and energy. Vision without discipline is a daydream...
Parkman was one of the outstanding students while at St. Mark's, being honored with a monitorship there. He matriculated at Harvard in the fall of 1915 and completing his course in three years, he was graduated Magna Cum Laude and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society with the class of 1918. He was a John Harvard scholar for one year, held a Harvard College scholarship two years, and was elected in his senior year a member of the class committee...
Unfortunately, the suggestion is like most attempts to justify mistakes, in that it overlooks the original cause. If students could be trusted to have a genuine excuse for each absence, monitorship would never have been invented...
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