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Here's to those preceptor guys...
Here's to those preceptor guys Fifty stiffs to make us wise?...
Besides the 50 new preceptors?supervisors of small study conferences held in conjunction with lecture courses?Princeton took on 37 new faculty members in 1905-06, made preceptors of 14 who were already there. Chosen from the nation's ablest, these 101 teachers, most of them young, were to become proud of themselves as a group. Seventy of them stayed in pedagogy. Most of them reached prominence?such prominence that last week the Princeton Alumni Weekly asked proudly, ''Where Are the Preceptor Guys?" and told about them as follows...
Among first contributors is Psychologist Carl G. Jung, Freudian apostate, preceptor of the late Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Dr. Jung says that Dr. Sigmund Freud's explanation of neurosis as due to the repression of sexuality is lopsided, that petticoated Victorianism made Dr. Freud think as he does...
...Like his preceptor Professor Gushing, Professor Penfield makes a fetish of proficiency in diverse activities. Professor Gushing collects everything which can be assembled, sorted and classified. (Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum has his series of War helmets, a piece of barbed wire he fetched from a barricade.) Professor Penfield once coached the Princeton football team, is an ardent tennis player, farms extensive acreage near Lake Memphremagog, Quebec, likes good literature, good music. Best of all he enjoys a case of epilepsy...