Word: preceptions
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...Dickens describes Seth Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit as "a most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction-post, wnich is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there . . . His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat . . . and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. His person was sleek though free from corpulency...
Cornell corroborated this basic precept Saturday when it fumbled three times in the first half in it's game with Harvard at the Stadium. The Crimson converted all three recoveries into its only touch was of the afternoon and defeated the Big Red, 21-14, in the initial Ivy League contest for both teams...
James characteristically displayed more interest in the pedagogical significance of his theory than in confirmation by precise, quantitative methods. "There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know: if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance cold-bloodedly, go through the out-ward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will infallibly come in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth...
...precept underlying much of what happens at NSA Congresses is that debate and discussion are worthwhile ends in themselves. The theory has been that it is a good idea for future citizens of a democracy to become concerned with the larger problems of their society. This perspective developed gradually during the 15 years NSA has been in existence, and has only become fully conscious in recent years. The hope of those who introduced "politics" into NSA was that by bringing students of widely-differing opinions together, the easy answers of the traditional wisdom would come under critical examination. NSA insisted...
...alone cannot possibly produce solutions. As currently planned, its function is to be a kind of "Precept Corps"-sending small groups of trained volunteers into troubled areas at the request of local people and working under their orders. By example, the volunteers are supposed to spur greater local action-soon working themselves out of a job and moving on to another trouble spot...