Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day musing, muddling Stanley Baldwin (not half so sure of his mission from On High as is Lucy) talked to a student audience at the University of Glasgow of which this year he is Lord Rector. "Whatever the cares of the day, I always enjoy my breakfast," mused he. "Every morning I am full of hope, faith and cheer. By lunch time I've lost a great deal of it and by evening I've nearly given up all hope of this world or the next...
...Master's residence, Apthorp House, was built in 1760 by the Reverend East Apthorp, the first rector of Christ Church. Confiscated from its loyalist owner at the outbreak of the Revolution it served as General Putnam's headquarters and the residence of General Burgoyne and some of his officers after their surrender at Saratoga...
What should a lad do between the ages of 18 and 22: go to work? go around the world? go to college? Said Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) in his annual report last week: "Let a father ask his boy: 'Do you want to invest four years of your life while I invest $10,000 of family money in this venture?' " Let them not assume that "a boy whose father can afford it should go to college regardless of profiting thereby...
...Under the title The Fishermen's Saint (Scribner's, $1), Dr. Grenfell last month published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...
...Lyman '97. Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Emeritus, and Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory; Chandler Rathfon Post '40, Professor of Greek and of Fine Arts; George David Birkhoff '40, Professor of Mathematics, and Tutor in the Division of Mathematics; Thomas Barbour '60, Professor of Zoology, Di- rector of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Clarence 'Henry Haring '07, Professor of Latin-American History and Economics: Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion...