Word: chancellor
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...well. He is a spare and stooped theologian, unfailingly polite to everyone-and just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax, is largely honorary...
...appointment came as a surprise to Oxonians, probably including John Lowe himself. When Vice Chancellor W.T.S. Stallybrass was killed in an accident a fortnight, ago (he was the first ever to die in office), his job should normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...
Died. Dr. William Teulon Swan ("Sonners") Stallybrass, 64, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University,* longtime Principal of Oxford's Brasenose College; in an accident when he stepped out of a moving train (he was almost blind); near Iver Station, Buckinghamshire, England...
Died. Dr. Alexander Guerry, 58, aggressive vice chancellor (president) of the University of the South (Sewanee), longtime leading Southern educator (president of the University of Chattanooga, 1929-38; president of the Southern University Conference, 1946); of coronary thrombosis; in Knoxville...
When it was all over, the Hon. Sir David Smith, chancellor of the University of New Zealand, confessed to a vague feeling of disappointment: "Not a single joke! I rather prefer the way we do it in our British universities-more zest." Last week's inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of 194-year-old Columbia University was as solemn as a funeral, as impressive as a coronation, and as carefully mapped as an invasion...