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...Joseph Chamberlain died July 2, 1914; onetime Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895-1903); famed M. P.; onetime Lord Rector of Glasgow University, to which post of honor son Austen was likewise elected last week (see EDUCATION...
...shortly appeared that in championing Sidney Webb as Lord Rector of Glasgow, Mr. Shaw had drawn himself forcibly to the attention of students at another large seat of Scotch learning. With acclaim a potent faction at St. Andrews University-nominated him for their Lord Rectorship. John Galsworthy, famed playwright-author has been nominated as his opponent...
...Lord Rector of Glasgow University is elected triennially by the students, who vote in "nations" according to the part of Scotland in which they were born. Technically, the Lord Rector is a member of the governing body of the University. Actually, the office is conferred as a mark of honor upon some distinguished...
...banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary along the Alabama River. At the turn of the century, Baltimore called him home. He became rector of St. Michael and All Angels', not far from the residence of the "best loved man in Baltimore," James Cardinal Gibbons...
Divorce. The Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, rector of famed Trinity Church, was one of several alarmed Manhattan divines who desired drastic action to check divorces. The Church now refuses to remarry the guilty party in divorce. Dr. Stetson proposed that the innocent party should also be barred from this service of the Church. The proposal was rejected. Said Dr. Percy Kammerer of Pittsburgh: "This resolution is unsound, unscientific; it evades the issue. It is negative, punitive, retributive...