How To Use Provost In A Sentence
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The collegers came from a wide social range, though conditions in College were bad and the boys much neglected until the reforms brought in by Provost Hodgson (1840-53).
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Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity.
Patsy
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The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it.
The Grand Old Man
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The group was welcomed by West Dunbartonshire's Lord Provost Alistair MacDonald, and presented with a silver quaich.
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In the first year of the new academic plan, 11 proposals from three colleges were funded through the pool managed by the Provost Office.
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And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor.
The Charm of Oxford
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Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, is a former provost of Stanford University.
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A defection from Labour ranks to the Scottish Socialist Party in Renfrewshire a month ago means that Labour can only win votes with the casting vote of the provost.
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It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
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Our colleges and universities need deans, provosts and presidents who support and promote psychological science.
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“Having served as a law school dean in the past, Trish is poised to strengthen a variety of aspects of the school, including the faculty and its academic programs,” stated UM Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Tom LeBlanc.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
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For several generations the headmaster, who was the subordinate officer of the provost, had been an Eton colleger and scholar of King's College, Cambridge.
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A provost is the head of the cathedral chapter in a number of the Church of England's more recently created dioceses in which the cathedral is also a parish church and the provost is the incumbent.
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These types of concerns can stymie department chairs, deans, and provosts interested in creating and implementing policies to help parents.
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It was especially in the towns administered in the king's name and by his provosts that there was a development of this spirit, which has long been the predominant characteristic of French burgherdom.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
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They'll-get-you-coming-and-going, from his Grove entry: Apart from [his appointment as Abbot of] Löpsingen, he had three sources of income — a stipend from the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome, the abbacy of San Stefano in Carrara, near Padua, and a provostship in the Rhenish town of Seltz.
Was (Not Was)
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Finally, when he reached the eighth table and was about to say his piece, one of the group jumped up and said: ‘Och dinnae worry about us, Lord Provost.’
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David L. Schindler is Provost/Dean and Gagnon Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family; he is also editor of Communio (English edition).
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
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And at the next meeting of Senate “Mr. Smith reported that he had spoken to the Provost of Glasgow about the ladles exacted by the town from students for meal brought into the town for their own use, and that the Provost promised to cause what had been exacted to be returned, and that accordingly the money was offered by the town's ladler [55] to the students.”
Life of Adam Smith
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His cousin also obtained for him from the pope, without his knowledge, the provostship of the church of Geneva, then vacant: but the young clergyman held out a long time before he would accept of it.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin 'auld Provost Jervie's time -- and he had a quean of a servant lass that dressed it hersel', wi 'the doup o' a candle and a dredging box.
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History
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Moreover we ordain that those who hold the provosties, shrievalties, and other baillies cannot sell them to anyone else without our leave, and if several persons combine to buy the aforesaid offices, it is our will that one of the buyers shall perform the duties for all the rest, and exercise the liberties pertaining to remounts, tallages and public charges, as the custom is.
The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
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And the Department of Education's quasi-governmental accrediting oversight body comprises many university presidents, including the provost of the University of Phoenix and the board chairman of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, a chief lobbying group for the for-profit college industry.
Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire
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Because improving the Law School's posture is perceived as essential to the University, the Provost has agreed, as well, to match the Law School's effort with six more faculty lines to be paid for out of central resources.
Discourse.net: Yes, We're Hiring
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Smith was appointed along with Professor Muirhead to go and represent to the Provost that the exaction was a violation of the privileges of the University, and to demand repayment within eight days, under pain of legal proceedings.
Life of Adam Smith
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Copies of the memorandum went to the membership of appeals committees that had found the provost's decisions to be arbitrary and capricious.
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The Provoste gaining no other grace at this time, would not so give over for this first repulse, but pursuing her still with unbeseeming importunity; many private meanes he used to her by
The Decameron
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It is only one generation since the provostship of Scotch towns was generally reserved for one of the local landlords belonging to the upper classes.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers.
All hail the Robert Burns of our day | Kevin McKenna
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I.ternal campus documents released this week show Giannoulias 'adviser Endy Zemenides sent information about the student to U. of I. Provost Linda Katehi in February 2008.
Wait 20 Years. Erupt.
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin auld Provost Jervie's time --- and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi 'the doup o' a candle and
The Antiquary
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The policists, that is, the burgesses inclined to peace, repaired on their side to the provost of tradesmen to ask for his authority to assemble at the Palace or the Hotel de Ville, and to provide for security in case of any public calamity.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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White women provosts at leading research universities, including Ivy League institutions, are not rarities these days.
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The lady drew up, and the provost said, half aside, 'The sooth bourd is nae bourd.
Redgauntlet
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Many smaller animals have also joined the collection: siamang gibbons, provost squirrels, howler monkey, armadillo and the elusive mona monkeys.
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Ack-pip-emma" is the Assistant Provost Marshal, whom everybody hates, while just "pip-emma" is the Paymaster, who is always welcome.
The Emma Gees
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Its president and provost, working through the campus chancellors and college deans, demonstrate a formidable commitment to make the faculty employment environment family friendly.
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On EWTN, a programme recently appeared in relation to the forthcoming beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman, which was a conversation with Fr. Paul Chavasse, provost of the Birmingham Oratory and postulator of the cause.
Fr. Paul Chavasse on the Beatification of Cardinal Newman and a Solemn Te Deum
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With the Cluniac reform the term prior received a specific meaning; it supplanted the provost
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The Provost's a gleg man, but he's not so gleg as his wife.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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SNP insiders fear that the anti-Labour vote will be split between them, the Conservatives and ex-Glasgow provost Pat Lally.
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At Galashiels station there was a huge crowd and a media scrum as I shook hands with the driver and the provost and boarded the train.
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Then, when Dacian the provost saw that he might not surmount him, he called his enchanter and said to him: I see that these christian people doubt not our torments.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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A provost at a third college commented at the start of the year about how the success of a particular initiative depended on faculty input.
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Bow, war slane David Kirk and David Barbour, (being at the Provostes back,) and thareafter war slane the said Provest himself, being Lard of
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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Bruno, provost of the diocese's Cathedral Center of St. Paul, will replace current Bishop Frederick Borsch, 64, when he retires at an unspecified future date.
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A provost is the head of the cathedral chapter in a number of the Church of England's more recently created dioceses in which the cathedral is also a parish church and the provost is the incumbent.
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The local mayor or provost should host a citizenship ceremony - as proposed in the NIA Act - which would be ‘something memorable to citizens both old and new’.
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Providence, than the provost himself, my lord though he be, or even the mayor of London, with his velvet gown trailing for yards in the glaur behind him, or riding about the streets in a coach made of clear crystal and wheels of beaten gold.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
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It contains three copper-plates, one representing Sir William on horseback, and attended with guards as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, superintending the unloading of one of his rich argosies.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Besides the 10 regular cathedral canons, the archdiocese contains 8 titular stalls, 9 titular abbacies, and 10 titular provostships.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Hirschau, which arose in Germany in the eleventh century, the term prior was also substituted for provost, and the example of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Then, just a day later, the peace walkers were again being officially fêted, this time at Glasgow's City Chambers, where deputy provost Jean Macey laid on food and tea for the activists, many of whom had only just been released.
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`Very apt," The Provost repeats, tugging his eyes away from Ariadne.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
THE NUMBERS
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At present the chief dignity of a chapter is usually styled dean, though in some countries, as in England, the term provost is applied to him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Fr Paul Chavasse, provost superior of the Birmingham Oratory and postulator of the cause of Cardinal John Henry Newman, often talks about modern man having a fear of death.
Catholicmomof10militant
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Rev Paul Harvie, the priest at St Salvador Episcopal Church in Dundee, where unhappy members of St Paul's Cathedral fled after fallouts with provost Miriam Byrne, agrees that baptisms carried out by Ms Byrne may not be valid.
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The Provost looked anew upon the careless, intrepid young Northumbrian, who seemed not to care a bodle for his imminent fate.
Border Ghost Stories
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By a charter granted in 1200 King John permitted the citizens of Lincoln to elect two of their number "well and faithfully to maintain the provostship (_præposituram_) of the city.
The Customs of Old England
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His eventual election as lord provost in 1843, in the changed religious atmosphere immediately surrounding the Disruption of that year, was seen as a triumph for unsectarian principles.
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Basing the cost of each machine at approximately $1,500, a total of $85,500 will be provided by the Provost with matching funds coming from the colleges.
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And when the provost heard this he was greatly moved, and sent for a multitude of people, and made Eugenia to be brought with the other servants of Jesu Christ bound in iron, and established a day when they all should be delivered to beasts for to be devoured, and then were they called tofore the provost, which said to Eugenia: Say to me, thou right cursed wretch, if your God hath taught you to do such works as for to corrupt and defile the women forcibly against their will?
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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But because no one can at any time say so much, as thereto no more may be added: beside them alreadie spoken of, I wil tel you another concerning the Provost of a
The Decameron
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I had the good fortune to discover this in my own ministry, partly because I was constantly acting in a diaconal role to my bishop as his director of ordination candidates or as the provost of his cathedral.
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The ship embarked the Lord Provost of Glasgow for the final part of the voyage to her berth at Yorkhill Quay, and the ship will be open to visitors on Saturday November 11 from 1300-1700.
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He may well bear us out in a feud with the Highlandmen, and do the part of our provost and leader against them; but whether he that himself wears silk will take our part against broidered cloak and cloth of gold, though he may do so against tartan and Irish frieze, is something to be questioned.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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I was encouraged when college presidents, provosts, and professors at about half of the 70 schools I contacted were willing to speak to me.
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Hale is vice provost and professor emeritus at Ohio State University.
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One of these was Provost Bost , administrator of the public school, Eton.
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A distinguished professor and well-known expert on New Mexico politics, Garcia served from 1987 to 1990 as vice president of academic affairs, a position now called provost.
Ex-university head arrested in prostitution sting
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Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick.
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Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
The Haunted Bookshop
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I try to imagine the scene, some random faculty member about to, say, light a joint at home, some Saturday morning at 1am, calling the provost to make sure he's informed.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Perhaps it never occurred to the deans, provosts, or department chairs to recognize the wallflowers of the department.
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And I contango can take off my dudud dirtynine articles of quoting here in Pynix Park be-fore those in heaven to provost myself, by gramercy of justness,
Finnegans Wake
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He would like those policies to be reviewed by the colleges, provost and university president.
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They'll-get-you-coming-and-going, from his Grove entry: Apart from [his appointment as Abbot of] Löpsingen, he had three sources of income — a stipend from the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome, the abbacy of San Stefano in Carrara, near Padua, and a provostship in the Rhenish town of Seltz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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It's extr'ornar!" blurted the Provost (who was a man of brosy speech, large-mouthed and fat of utterance).
The House with the Green Shutters
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Within that empyreal realm, the new Senior Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development will occupy a ‘singular and permanent position,’ dictates the task force.
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Provost said the boat operator had practiced the stunt but was relatively inexperienced.
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It was with great difficulty that the ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806.
Les Miserables
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In view of the reduced size of the Folklore department and its lack of a chairman, we—that is, the provost—has decided that the best solution would be to merge this department with Anthropology.
Blood Lite II: Overbite
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Another was annexed by letters patent of 1713 to the provostship of
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
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On Wednesday, at a convocation honoring the four professors who have received tenure this year, Provost Dan Hornbach spoke eloquently about the importance of tenure for the preservation of academic freedom.
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‘It can write and spell baith in right hands,’ answered the provost, as the laird retired and shut the door behind him.
Redgauntlet
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The responses received also included questionnaires filled in by 100 licensed lay workers, 56 archdeacons, 18 bishops, 13 deans or provosts and 61 residentiary canons.
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As a Provost and Judge, it is your especial duty to render justice to all, to hear patiently, remember accurately, and weigh carefully the facts and the arguments offered.
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Provost Berry concurred in the dean's position.
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Another time the Provost warned him and another choirboy about eating fish and chips in a main road in Wakefield, so from then on they kept to the side streets.
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Many smaller animals have also joined the collection: siamang gibbons, provost squirrels, howler monkey, armadillo and the elusive mona monkeys.
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Gregorian's dynamism, charisma and intellectual gifts were such that by 1974 he became provost of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mr Constable said later that the provost was traditionally chairman of the board, which was not run along political lines.
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He made the acquaintance there of La Provostaye who was at the time a surveillant and who became his lifelong friend and his associate in his researches.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The provost was a former natural scientist, and he greeted me with a mournful countenance.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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Parents today call the provost to complain about a grade on a daughter's paper, or the president to talk about a room assignment.
Lee Woodruff: College Advice Blog, Part III: Life After Drop-Off
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Sir William Baillie was the last heritor in the Kirk before the congregation elected Rev John Ireland in 1876, who later became provost of Whitburn in 1882.
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STV is a viable answer to the electoral system riddle and they were right to declare against directly elected provosts.
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In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord
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In the Rule of St. Benedict the term prior occurs several times, but does does not signify any particular superior; it is indiscriminately applied to any superior, be he abbot, provost, dean, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Great preferment for poor Madge to be brought up the street wi’ a grand man, wi’ a coat a’ passemented wi’ worset-lace, to speak wi’ provosts, and bailies, and town-clerks, and prokitors, at this time o’ day — and the haill town looking at me too — This is honour on earth for ance!”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Each year, I meet with the president, the provost and the deans' council to determine priorities for the next fiscal year.
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‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers.
Redgauntlet
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At Taunton, the rebels killed, in their fury, an officious and eager commissioner of the subsidy, whom they called the provost of Perin.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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I had the good fortune to discover this in my own ministry, partly because I was constantly acting in a diaconal role to my bishop as his director of ordination candidates or as the provost of his cathedral.
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The burgh was a great place for suppers too, and never _ceilidh_ nor supper went I to but the daughter of Provost Brown was there before me.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The responses received also included questionnaires filled in by 100 licensed lay workers, 56 archdeacons, 18 bishops, 13 deans or provosts and 61 residentiary canons.
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Catharine Scott, associate provost and the chair of the new committee, said ‘We see ourselves as an educating force.’
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No one in trade was considered good enough for the provostship.
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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In the years after the Treaty of Mellifont, and before The Flight of the Earls, Tyrone's country and the territories of his confederates and so on, was treated by martial law commissioners and Provosts Martial.
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Bertulf, who had tyrannically usurped the provostship of St. Donatian's in Bruges, to which dignity was annexed the chancellorship of Flanders, and his wicked relations, the great oppressors of their country.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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They'll-get-you-coming-and-going, from his Grove entry: Apart from [his appointment as Abbot of] Löpsingen, he had three sources of income — a stipend from the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome, the abbacy of San Stefano in Carrara, near Padua, and a provostship in the Rhenish town of Seltz.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In his testament, written at Striviling in his "awin dwelling house," on the 5th of that month, as he nominates Mr. Robert Pont, Provost of Trinity College, to act as oversman, and one of his assignees, we may infer, that Clapperton had embraced the reformed doctrines.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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This man stayed with the regiment two or three days before he was turned over to the provost guard.
One of Jackson's foot cavalry : his experience and what he saw during the war 1861-1865, including a history of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va.,
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Madge to be brought up the street wi 'a grand man, wi' a coat a 'passemented wi' worset-lace, to speak wi 'provosts, and bailies, and town-clerks, and prokitors, at this time o' day --- and the haill town looking at me too --- This is honour on earth for ance! ''
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Likewise, Benvoglienti, a provost in Siena Cathedral who was attentive to ceremonial detail, commented on ritual usage of the Strada Romana on more than one occasion in De urbis Senae.