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| | President - From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In ecclesiastical terminology praessdens was sometimes used for the head of cathedral chapters, instead of dean or provost; and it was sometimes the title given to the principal visitor of monasteries, notably in the reformed congregation of Cluny (Du Cange). |
 | | In the United Kingdom the heads of many colleges are styled president, the title being of considerable antiquity in the case of one college at Cambridge (Queens, founded in 1448) and four at Oxford (St Johns, Magdalen, Corpus Christi, Trinity). |
 | | At five Cambridge colleges (Pembroke, Gonville and Caius, St Catherines, St Johns, Magdalene) the title president is borne by the second in authority, being the equivalent of vicemaster. |
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