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Just after the University of Barcelona closed for the Easter vacation last week, rioting students broke into the rector's office, began to pummel the beadle...
...Gentlemen, Caballeros!" cried the rector. "What do you want...
Following that insurrection, Warden Hill announced that Chaplain George Whitmeyer, onetime rector of an Episcopal church in bloody Herrin, Ill., "had fomented discontent, carried messages for convicts and, knowingly or not, had been instrumental in a jail delivery plot." Chaplain Whitmeyer resigned three days after the thwarted escape. Said he: "I resigned because I was the man who disclosed the plans for the attempted prison escape, only to have the guards deliberately trap and shoot these three men after they had been allowed to climb down the outer wall. It was such brutality that aroused the other prisoners...
...above were the first ever bestowed by Harvard College. The "Reverend President" mentioned in the vote of September, 1692, was Increase Mather, A.B. 1656, the first American-born president of the College; he was a Fellow of the College from 1675 to 1685, acting president from 1685 to 1686, rector from 1686 to 1692, and president from 1692 to 1701. John Leverett and William Brattle were members of the class of 1680 and both, it appears, were Fellows of the College from 1685 to 1700, although there semes to be some doubt about the beginning of Brattle's term. Brattle...
...Rector of Copenhagen University, Dr. Lauritz V. Birck, erudite Danish economist, spoke last week as follows...