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Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...
...Reverend Arthur L. Kinsolving, Rector of Trinity Church, will conduct the service which will be open to members of the University and the general public. It will last fifteen minutes...
President Lowell in 1929 claimed that the "average age for entrance into college should and will drop to as low as 13," a prediction which is in keeping with the statements made last fall by Dr. Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School, and by Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of Admissions...
...wife and six children, his combined home and office, his vast capacity for champagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with evening clothes. Though he built several churches he was by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Boston's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Richardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richardson promised to do so. started at Genesis, read straight on through the night. At breakfast next morning he lustily hailed his family...
When brilliant Carl Willever, who had just been expelled from his High Church monastery because of homosexual practices, came to him for shelter, Ernest feared it might well cost him his job. After a run-in with his rector, he knew it would, unless he told Carl to go. After a short, sharp tussle he did the sensible thing, went on with his never-ending round of telephone calls, taxis, cigarets, his headlong, good-humored but uncompromising fight against sinful muddle...