Word: rector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students as a whole seem as dangerously irrepressible as ever. Many universities were rimmed with police guards, and the atmosphere at Warsaw University became so threatening that the rector closed it for a day. A group of 200 students decided to meet there anyway, and broke into a lecture hall to pass resolutions demanding reinstatement for the fired professors and military discharges for the drafted students. If they have not received satisfaction by the end of Easter vacation, warned the leaders, they will put out a call for a general strike at all Polish universities...
...replacements, Nasser chose men mainly from the academic and professional groups, which in the past have played almost no role in his governments. The new Treasury Minister is a college dean, the Minister of Education a university rector. A Cairo bank director was named Minister of Supplies and an administrator at the Aswan High Dam put in charge of the Ministry of Irrigation. Most of the new appointees were educated in Western universities, but none were known for any particular political leaning...
Muggeridge, who recently resigned as Rector of Edinburgh over student demands for free birth control pills, also said that he would only allow certified promiscuous girls to have them. Morgan asked him, "Wouldn't you give just one to a nice girl...
...sheer desperation, perhaps, Anglican priests will try almost everything to pump new life into their rundown urban parishes. In his eight years as rector of St. Mary's in London's grimy Woolwich district, the Rev. Nick Stacey, 40, has wheeled a beauty queen around town in a cart to publicize a church benefit, opened a coffee bar and canteen for teenagers, and instituted bingo games for their elders. More seriously, his 14-man staff has started a housing service for indigents, a suicide emergency center, and a host of other useful counseling services. But even...
...rector of Edinburgh University, Author-Iconoclast Malcolm Muggeridge, 64, is supposed to act as intermediary between students and administration. Last week, in his annual address from the pulpit of St. Giles's Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, the Mugger reaffirmed his sympathies with the rebellious ways of youth, "up to and including blowing up this magnificent edifice." The point at which he lost touch, however, was the demand that birth-control pills be handed out at the university's medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt...