Word: preceptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertook, but his vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...
...Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply: "Not for the moment...
...result of pressures applied in recent months by the A.A.G.P. and through the American Medical Association, hospitals report a 50% increase in operating G.P. departments since 1952; a dozen of the 81 medical schools in the country have set up special G.P. programs. The "preceptor" system, whereby an intern divides his time between a central hospital and on-the-job training with a G.P., has spread from 9 schools in 1950 to 22, now equips some 1,000 each year to be family doctors if they choose...
Died. John Duncan Spaeth, 85, president emeritus of the University of Kansas City, longtime (1905-36) firecracker of Princeton's English department, which he joined as one of Woodrow Wilson's original "preceptor guys": after long illness; in Wayne...
...program, sponsored by the Dunster House Music Committee, features the piano playing of Gregory Tucker, preceptor in Music, and the flute playing of Anton Winkler, formerly with the Minneapolis Symphony...