Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend C. L. Glenn, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...second minority report came from the Council's two Roman Catholic members, Vice Rector Edward Aloysius Pace of the Catholic University of America and Rev. George Johnson, secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association. They fear a Federal department as bureaucratic, likely to assume too much power, to use its power for political propaganda. This conclusion w?as hailed last week by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, who said: "With the mad fanaticism, intolerance and bigotry exhibited in the presidential campaign of 1928 still in mind, one hesitates to think what would happen if a Secretary of Education...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
Schoolmastering is often a stronghold of conservatism, but not for Dr. Samuel S. Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School. In words characterized by enlightenment and far-sightedness, he has declared the educational systems imposed on boys too inflexible. He believes that the brighter individuals should be allowed time to enjoy the advantages of foreign travel as a part of the curriculum...
...Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University was recently reported as stating that 78 per cent of the college students of Columbia--undergraduates--remain in Columbia University or go to some other university for graduate and professional study. But, within twelve months of this surprising statement. Dr. Samuel S. Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., confessed that "not over 75 per cent of each graduating class here, for example, can show either the intellectual fiber or the vocational urge to justify higher education...