Word: rector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest rags of their undergraduate lives. Boys & girls donned dungarees, pulled on their shabbiest shirts and football jerseys. Then they crowded into the quadrangle, shouted and shoved, tossed fishheads about, along with such oddments as catsup, rotten fruit and bags of soot. They roared irreverent chants about their retiring rector: "Walter Elliot* has a big, beery nose...
...Glasgow, it was the week to elect a new rector-a distinguished man from public life whose job it will be for the next three years to represent students on the university court (Glasgow's administrative head is known as the principal). Following a tradition dating from 1858, the students did the nominating, voting and, mixing national and university politics freely, most of the campaigning, too. Some of the candidates' names bore their political tags: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative; onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Inverchapel (Clark Kerr), Independent; Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Independent; Actress Rosamond John...
...year-old United nations official, who received an honorary degree from the University in 1949, is at present Di- rector of the Division of Trusteeships in the Secretariat. He achieved world-wide fame and the Nobel Peace Prize for his work, 1948-9, as U.N. mediator in the Palestins dispute, a post he took over on the death of Geunt Floke-Bernadotte...
...Dreadful Hell. The author, scholarly Anglican Rector Herbert A. L. Jefferson, 60, ascribes England's lag in hymnody to the influence of Calvin, who limited congregational singing to hymns provided in the Scriptures, i.e., the Psalms. Metrical versions of the Psalms were prepared and set to popular airs. Queen Elizabeth referred to them slightingly as "Geneva Jigs," but she approved them for public worship. The results were sometimes inspiring, sometimes not. Example, from Psalm...
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt...