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Candid Answer. In prison camp, Hallstein had quickly been spotted as a "good German," and hustled home after V-E Day to help remake his country. Elected rector of Frankfurt University, he was busy trying to run a university of penniless students and wrecked buildings when his phone rang one day in the spring of 1950. The call summoned Hallstein to Bonn. There Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked: "What do you know about the Schuman Plan?" Replied the professor candidly: "Something less than there has been in the newspapers." Hallstein emerged from the Chancellery as chief of Germany's Schuman...
...During his installation address as the new rector of Edinburgh University, Sir Alexander Fleming recalled a memorable moment: It was on a morning in September 1928 that he noticed some mold on a bacteria culture plate. The mold seemed to be destroying the bacteria. "That was very unusual. Instead of casting out the contaminated culture with appropriate language, I made some investigations. The more I investigated, the more interesting it became. I found that the mold made a powerful and nonpoisonous antiseptic. I christened it penicillin...
...study for the priesthood. "God grant," he told himself after the shores of England slipped away, "that I may always love and dutifully carry the cross of Christ and walk worthily of the vocation to which I am called." The Jesuits gave Father Gerard other offices to perform, e.g., rector of a house of philosophy at Liege, confessor to the English College at Rome. But he never saw England again...
...Rector Wolfgang Trillhaas was with the students, but he was not sure that he approved. "Personally," said Trillhaas over the clatter of steins, "I remain against these customs. But as long as you do not disturb the normal routine of university life, I am prepared to tolerate them." The fact was that Rector Trillhaas did not have much choice. With or without official sanction, the Burschenschajten were once again flourishing all over Western Germany...
Reverend Harold F. Hohly, rector of Bronxville Protestant Episcopal Christ Church, questioned the Legion's methods and their right to investigate Sarah Lawrence, calling them different "only in degree from those used in Nazi Germany and presently in Argentina and Russia...