Word: rector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priests, understand-I feel not worthy enough." Then, while his fellow clergymen and the congregation watched in amazed silence, the distraught monsignor, still clad in bishop's robes, hurried through a side door to his car, which was waiting with the motor running. St. Stephen's rector, Dr. Karl Dorr, followed Jachym to the car and rapped on a window. Jachym's chauffeur drove off. The monsignor went into seclusion at the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy...
...that Monsignor Jachym was not completely in sympathy with the Vatican's militant antiCommunism. There was no confirmation of this gossip. Dr. Dorr reminded Viennese of Saints Ambrose and Gregory. "Only God knows what is in the soul of such a person in such an hour," said the rector. "It's not for us to judge but to respect the judgment of conscience...
...suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers; and in 1890, the Rev. Talbot Rice, Rector of St. Peter le Bailey, became The Tagger Ragger of St. Pagger le Bagger. Meanwhile, an Oxford specialty was adding -er to everything: eccer (exercise), fresher (freshman), roller (roll call) and The Jowler (Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett...
...students of north Belgium's University of Ghent (enrollment 2,500) had no sooner heard the last words of the announcement than they began grumbling ominously. Their mild-mannered Rector Norbert Goormaghtigh was going to resign, and it was all because the Minister of Education in Brussels had appointed a local doctor named Joseph Van de Velde to the vacant chair of clinical surgery. The rector did not want him, nor did his. students. "Van de Velde can't even speak Flemish," was the students' cry. "This is Walloon interference again...
...strike did indeed go on for several days. Then Rector Goormaghtigh had another meeting with the Minister of Education. In the face of such fury, the minister backed down, urged the rector to stay on, promised to let him choose his own professor of clinical surgery. At week's end, loyal Flemings had agreed to troop back to class...