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He wound up staying at Cambridge his entire life, first as a Fellow of Trinity and a lecturer in classics, then as a lecturer in moral philosophy, then as praelector in moral and political philosophy, and finally, from 1883, as Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006
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London, spilling Babycham on their gilets and braying about that hilarious time they puked up at High Table and papa got a call from the college praelector.
Evening Standard - Home Dan Jones 2011
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