Word: rectorate
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...foster closer relations with his parishioners, the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's Protestant Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, instituted an after-service "coffee hour" for Sunday morning churchgoers...
...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...
...letter transmitted by American military authorities and received here by E. F. Bruck, professor of Rector Wolfgang Kunkel writes that outside assistance can help avoid "distress and embitterment" and "dispair of the world and democratic ideals of which they are being told so much...