Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rector-Emeritus...
Died. Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, 76, rector of London's swank St. Margaret's Church, since 1913 Canon of Westminster; in London. In 1916 he married the widow of Statesman Joseph Chamberlain, thus became the stepfather of Statesmen Neville and Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...serious-minded Scot student at Glasgow University enjoys nothing more than electing a Lord Rector, when he must traditionally fight with a bag of soot for his place at the polling booth. The University's General Council of Electors never proceeds more deliberately than when it is choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...
...Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College. Before going to Carleton, Dr. Houghton was President of Waynesburg College 1915-18; and President of Carrol College, Wisconsin, 1918-20. At the age of forty, he was ordained as a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1923-29 was rector of All Saints Church, Northfield, Minn...
Last week Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, in his annual report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period...