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PRINCIPAL , a See also: person or thing first, or chief in See also: rank or importance, or, more widely, prominent, leading
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The See also: Lat. adj. principalis, first, chief, See also: original, also princely, is formed from princeps, the first, chief, See also: prince, from See also: Primus, first, and capere to hold
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In See also: Late Lat. principalis was used as a substitute for an overseer or See also: superintendent, and also for the chief magistrate of a See also: municipality (See also: Symmachus, Ep
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9, 1)
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It is a See also: common title for the See also: head of educational institutions, See also: universities, colleges and See also: schools
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It is thus used of the director, of some of the heads of newer universities in See also: England, e.g
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See also: London and See also: Birmingham, always so in Scotland, and frequently combined with the See also: vice-chancellorship
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At the university of See also: Oxford the name occurs twice as the title of the head of a See also: college, viz. of Brasenose and Jesus
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It was always used of the heads of halls, of which St Edmund See also: Hall alone remains
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It is also the designation used of the head of the newer theological or denominational colleges, and also of the
See also: women's colleges
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At Cambridge it does not occur
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In See also: law, it is used in distinction from " See also: accessory," for the person who actually commits the See also: crime, " principal in the first degree," or who is See also: present, aiding and abetting at the commission of the crime," principal in the second degree;" and also for the person for whom another
acts by his authority (see PRINCIPAL AND See also: AGENT below)
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Finally as a shortened See also: form of " principal sum," " principal See also: money," &c.,, the See also: term is used of the original sum lent or invested upon which See also: interest is paid, and so, widely of any capital sum, as opposed to interest or income derived from it
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