Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week 46-year-old Ed Stettinius returned to the University of Virginia-as its 26th rector, a post whose first occupant was Founder Thomas Jefferson (1819-26). Virginia had long since rewarded its No. 1 alumnus by giving him an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The University of California added an honorary LL.D...
...rector, handsome, white-haired Big Ed will be kind of chairman of the board of the university, while President John Lloyd Newcomb, 64, continues to shape educational policy...
...Rector Stettinius hopes to keep a close eye on Virginia's new Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Service and International Affairs.* He will invite his diplomatic buddies down to speak, will himself be a proper subject of study as onetime Secretary of State and first U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...
...Italy, to the University of Florence, whose rector has a distinguished anti-Fascist record...
...Living Church fervently seconded the minority report in an editorial titled "Not Unity but Surrender." But the hottest blast came in an article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...