Word: rectorate
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...York court last week officially upheld the right of an Episcopal bishop to fire a minister under his jurisdiction. As he listened to his friend, Justice Meier Steinbrink, deliver the long decision upholding the provisions of Episcopal canon law, old Rector John Howard Melish, 74, slumped forward in his seat and rested his forehead on his cane...
Reverend Frederick B. Kellog, Chaplain to the Episcopal students and rector of Christ Church, has been named chairman of the committee. He will be aided by Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Miller, who will act as secretary, Professor F. O. Matthiessen, I. A. Richards, Harry T. Levin '33, Perry Miller, and Phillip H. Rhinelander, teaching follow in Philosophy and General Education...
...Ireneo Fernando Cruz, realistic rector of the budding University of Cuyo, had organized the Congress of Philosophy. Object: to boost the prestige of Argentina and its government, on which all Argentine universities depend for handouts...
...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...
...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...