Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, blond, spectacled Episcopalian Melish, 37, has been suiting his actions to his far-leftish words. He is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and has beaten the drum for many another Communist-line cause. As associate rector of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity, he has had a sympathetic boss-his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, 73, rector for 44 years...
...Rector Melish stoutly defended his son for "doing the work which the rector himself would have done, had he been 20 years younger." He added: "A free pulpit that utters things that everyone accepts is an absurdity." Father & son issued a joint statement pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny...
...morning last week, at Prague's Charles University, the statue of the great 15th Century Rector Jan Hus was found throttled by a cloth gag. The gag was a serious gesture. Charles University was 600 years old, and to those who knew its history and traditions, the birthday celebrations staged by Czechoslovakia's new Communist rulers seemed a desecration...
...Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...
...Rector Bydzovsky gave Boss Nejedly an honorary doctorate of education-the first ever awarded in Czechoslovakia. Nine Russians got degrees too, but Columbia's John Dewey and Oxford's Sir David Ross, who had been offered degrees, stayed home...