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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rotating regency. The system under which a University regent (Regent n. 3) had to teach the whole of the curriculum to his students throughout their course. —?1695 Coll. St. Salvator 183.
[The most important proposal was that in each of the philosophy colleges] the professor of the Greek tounge [should be removed from the toils of the] rotating regency [and become a fixed appointment concerned with the instruction of students of the first year]
