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To: Salvation

In my high school the student seated nearest the doorway was the “beadle.” He kept the class attendance record for the teacher.


5 posted on 01/01/2014 12:06:31 PM PST by Neanderthal
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To: Neanderthal

You must have gone to a Jesuit HS.


6 posted on 01/01/2014 12:54:28 PM PST by xkaydet65 (.You have never tasted freedom, else you would know it is purchased not with gold but with steel)
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To: Neanderthal
That's the medieval schoolmen's academic 'beadle', who is a different animal from the church variety.

There's still a beadle at some Scottish universities.

9 posted on 01/01/2014 1:04:09 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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