Word: rectoral
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...columns of the Berlin Kurier last week, a middle-aged German named Hans Hirthammer waxed reminiscent over his schooldays in Bavaria's Landshut. They were not happy days. The school's rector was a harsh man who used to set his bullying son to spy on and punish the pupils. Called a born criminal by his father, the boy delighted in dreaming up ingenious punishments. Sometimes he forced the students to empty huge garbage cans and then refill them piece by piece with their bare hands. One day the students rebelled and jammed the rector...
...strong on hockey and respectability, has been headed by a churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice...
...crowd stood up in a shouting, back-slapping bedlam. Cried Roosevelt Carlos Kurd Sr., who had been identified by nine defendants as the man who shot out Willie Earle's brains: "I feel the best I ever felt in my life. I got justice." Defendant Hendrix Rector bragged: "I'm gonna get drunk for a month and then run for sheriff...
...Stuart knew there was something else which set him apart from the others. He talked about it once to his father, the rector of Christ Episcopal Church. His father just laughed. One quiet afternoon last week, when Stuart was playing the church organ, he thought about it again...
...University had turned out Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe, and such living lights as Railroader Robert Young, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were...