Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food package, which will contain $50 worth of valuable food items sent by college students as "a friendly gesture. . . expressing our regard for our comrades in Europe," will be transported by Professor Simmonet of the University of Paris to the Rector of the University, on the steamer lie de France...
Died. Dr. Antonio Caso, 62, philosopher, onetime rector of Mexico's National University, ofttime envoy (to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Reported last words: "Finally I am going to know...
...took under our care 50 refugees. Father Rector treated the wounded as well as he could. He had to confine himself in general to cleansing the wounds of purulent material. Even those with the smaller burns were very weak, and all suffered from diarrhea. Our work was, in the eyes of the people, a greater boost for Christianity than all our work during the preceding long years...
Ashfield, tucked in the Massachusetts hills, has only two churches, but even they are more than the town (pop. 900) can afford. Last October it found a way: one shepherd for its two flocks. Philip Humason Steinmetz, rock-hewn rector of tiny, white-framed St. John's Episcopal Church, took over as minister also of the Congregational Church that, with its Greek Revival portico and bell tower, dominates Ashfield's elm-bordered main street...
Last week, after a thorough housecleaning by the U.S., Heidelberg reopened. The new rector, a professor of surgery before the war, 55-year-old Karl Heinrich Bauer, told his audience of German students and U.S. generals: "Without tolerance there is no democracy, and without democracy no German future...