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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...
...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...
...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...