Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the corner stone of the new Library was laid, Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain, exclaimed with fervor: "When generations of the future ask our successors about the origin and sense of this monument of which we lay the first stone, they will be answered: 'At Louvain the Germans, by burning the library, definitely broke with wisdom and with civilization...
...Rector v. Architect. Thus far the attitude of Belgians and their Allies continued unswerving and consistent. But more recently Monsignor Ladeuze has reversed his former stand, and denounced as "likely to breed hatred" the stones bearing the inscription authorized by Cardinal Mercier. As champion of the Stones against the Rector, stands forth famed, florid, choleric Architect Whitney Warren of Manhattan. He designed the now virtually completed new Library of Louvain and personally received the inscription from Cardinal Mercier...
Married. Lucy Leffingwell, daughter of Russell Cornell Leffingwell, Morgan partner; to Thomas John Edward Pulling of Santa Barbara. Calif.; at Cold Spring Harbor, L. L, Rector Peabody of Groton School officiating...
...Macauley named one of his sons Edward Rector Macauley...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward