Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...
...begun as an ordinary "rag" (prank)-the sort that Cambridge students have been playing for centuries. Before the night was through, reported the Vice Chancellor, "undergraduates, in disorderly mobs, often several hundred strong, surged about the streets intent upon doing damage ... In Petty Cury they overturned and seriously damaged a car, regardless of the presence of a woman inside . . . On King's Parade, they damaged [another] car, crumpling its bonnet...
Eternal Vigilance. In Carlisle, England, Chancellor H. H. King stoutly opposed a move to install a furnace in a local church, defended his stand on the grounds that if the temperature were too comfortable, everyone would go to sleep during the sermons...
...become "a visitor most dear to British hearts," went Eleanor Roosevelt to receive from Oxford an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.* Introduced by the Public Orator as "a pillar of world affairs," Mrs. Roosevelt herself made a memorable target for photographers as she walked with Vice Chancellor Dr. John Lowe in the academic procession, properly garbed in the traditional squash hat and flowing academic gown...
...roast at lunch was tender and tasty, but for all the. effect it had on Robert Maynard Hutchins, it might have been fire & brimstone. At the annual National Conference of U.S. Editorial Writers in Louisville, Ky. last week, the University of Chicago's chancellor gave the banqueting journalists hell, with bells...