Word: chancellorship
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...chancellorship, an honorary post, is currently held by the Earl of Halifax, former Ambassador to the U.S. The vice-chancellorship, usually held for three years, rotates by seniority among the heads of Oxford colleges...
...Arthur Holly Compton, University of Chicago physicist and 1927 Nobel Prizewinner, accepted the chancellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, thus becoming the third Compton brother to be a college president. Brother Karl is president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brother Wilson is president of Washington State College (TIME...
Without waiting for a recount of University of Puerto Rico's students, who had demanded that he choose between the chancellorship of their university and the Governorship of their island, Rexford Guy Tugwell resigned the $15,000 chancellorship, was sworn into the $10,000 Governorship...
...Marin, invited Tugwell to be their chancellor (TIME, Aug. 4), hoisting the salary to $15,000 to make the job attractive, everybody seemed happy. Trouble started when President Roosevelt also appointed Tugwell the island's Governor. Tugwell indicated he would take a leave from the chancellorship and let a subordinate run the university until another Governor was found to relieve him. But the students wanted no pinch hitter as chancellor...
...students cheered, hissed, chanted, stamped, booed. Muñoz Marin finally gave up and let the students fight it out themselves. Those who wanted Tugwell whole or not at all took command. Four hours later a verdict was reached: let Tugwell resign either the Governorship or the chancellorship...