Word: precept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descriptions of good things to eat and how to make them even better. He appends 30 pages of recipes which cannot be read aloud without frequent swallows. A master chef in the great French tradition, Henri thinks no culinary detail too homely to be treated artistically. Typical is his precept to neophyte waiters: "Carve a ham as if you were shaving the face of a friend." Tall, white-haired (he is 54), of stately port and bonhomous mien, Henri admits he is pretty well done, but he is in no hurry to be taken from his browning oven...
...integrity of purpose, general highmindedness. I don't care if my children never learn the Salute to the dear old Flag or if their teachers never know how many square feet of playspace per child there should be in the school yard provided these principles are taught by precept and illustrated by example...
...stimulus of precept and example on the part of various faculty members has unquestionably increased undergraduate interest in current practical affairs. That this process has not gone far enough is due partly to pedagogical, partly to psychological reasons. Pedagogically, the professors have been unable sufficiently to combine academic theorizing with the practicality of the present. Psychologically, the students have been unable to sufficient extent to break down the walls of Harvard provincialism...
...students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...
...national hero but Washington and the Federalists disliked his philosophy and feared his politics: they shut every political door in his grandson's face. Franklin fitted Benny up in a printshop and expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave him the rank of a nobleman. When he thought about this...