Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,? no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets...
...wildest contrast to Chamberlain is Chesterton, who by sheer literary force has taken the position in London created in the 18th Century by Dr. Johnson and left vacant at his death until the ascension of G. K. C. . . . To make Chesterton Lord Rector of Glasgow would be at the lowest a great lark...
...shortly appeared that in championing Sidney Webb as Lord Rector of Glasgow, Mr. Shaw had drawn himself forcibly to the attention of students at another large seat of Scotch learning. With acclaim a potent faction at St. Andrews University-nominated him for their Lord Rectorship. John Galsworthy, famed playwright-author has been nominated as his opponent...
...Lord Rector of Glasgow University is elected triennially by the students, who vote in "nations" according to the part of Scotland in which they were born. Technically, the Lord Rector is a member of the governing body of the University. Actually, the office is conferred as a mark of honor upon some distinguished...
...House of Deputies, comprised of rectors and laymen, on assembling was obliged to elect a new President because the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann who held that post had been consecrated Bishop of Pittsburgh. So on the second day of the meeting, scheduled to last for 18 days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative...