Word: rectorate
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...publication of Darwin's theory of evolution and the widespread acceptance of scientific method shook the church to its foundations. The depth of the crisis, as Eakins saw it, can be measured in each man's eyes. Not all of the clerics liked what he saw. The rector of St. Charles, Patrick Garvey, remembered today as a "stern, quarrelsome but good-looking man," concealed his picture under the bed. The most elaborately composed portrait, that of Monsignor Hugh Henry, shows a genuine figure of strength and integrity, yet strangely mocked by a grinning image of Leo XIII...
...even worse. "With all that leftist activity, I was quite obviously on the other side," he recalls. "I was invited at first to a coupla cell meetings, and I played the lamb to listen to 'em for a while. The only guy that ever fooled me was the di rector Edward Dmytryk. I made a pic ture with him called Back to Bataan...
...brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium's famed Louvain University, and in 1945, was consecrated a bishop...
...University awarded one Doctor of Divinity degree, to Theodore P. Ferris '29, who has been rector of Trinity Church in Boston since...
...speech and undercutting the authority of college administrators by trying to fire chancellors who opposed the statehouse. At that, Reagan slammed his hand on the desk, shouting: "Listen, you are a liar! I've fought to keep politics out of the running of the university." Reagan later blamed Rector's death on "the first college administrator who said it was all right to break laws in the name of dissent...