From this throne like the headmaster in a boarding school, or as is done to small children, Ripley would mete out each expedition member's ration.
A former headmaster in a small town in lower Burma, he was recruited as an adviser and emissary by his old friend U Nu, the first Prime Minister of Burma.
One headmaster in a northern English city bemoans how small his potential talent pool is: "there just aren't that many good teachers who want to live around here", he says.
One of the few dissenters, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.com, preferred to proclaim him one more clueless owner adding to the Nets' history of incompetence, but The Newark Star-Ledger's Dave D'Alessandro was most poetic in describing the Nets' peculiar brand of chaos and said Prokhorov looked like the "stern headmaster in a really wacky private school".
The Rev. Prebendary Dr Arthur Chilton MVO, DD was appointed Headmaster in 1905, an appointment he held for 24 years and throughout World War One, until 1929.
His father, a headmaster in Beni Suef, a town seventy-five milesouthth of Cairo, was conservative, and his son followed suit.
"I'm meeting with your headmaster in less than an hour," he said.
Much of that must come from more than 20 years as a headmaster in boarding schools; he is also an Old Etonian, and it's hard not to feel that his efficient self-deprecation and total self-confidence are products of his schooling as much as of his job.
In January a headmaster in the southern province of Mersin provoked a furore after ordering male students to remain at least 45 centimetres from their female peers.
After a difficult search for a headmaster, in which the trustees consulted Benjamin Franklin, the trustees unanimously selected Thaddeus Dod, considered to be the best scholar in western Pennsylvania.
