Word: rectorate
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Last week the rectors of West Germany's universities, which still recognize East German degrees, gave notice that soon they may give up. Sternly, the rectors rejected invitations to join Leipzig's birthday celebration, which to them seemed only a wake. Leipzig's rector, a complaisant agriculturist named Georg Mayer who took over in 1948, seemed undismayed by the widening gap between his institution and those of West Germany. Further widening, said he as Party Boss Ulbricht beamed, "is an objective necessity...
North American College reluctantly shut its doors in 1940 when Italy entered World War II, reopened in 1948 under its current (No. 10) rector, Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. A North American graduate ('24), Archbishop O'Connor helped raise $4,000,000 for construction of the seminary's present (dedicated in 1953) six-story, brick and travertine building atop Janiculum Hill. A far cry from the old "House on Humility Street," the new college has 307 students' rooms, a 455-seat theater, infirmary, recreation and music rooms...
...Virginia was run by a "rector" until...
...this point, just when he should have relaxed, the sick (cardiac disease), suspicious President picked a new fight with a more serious opponent: the Roman Catholic Church. On Duvalier's orders, his tough cops grabbed up Father Etienne Grienenberger. rector of St. Martial, Haiti's largest Catholic college, and Father Joseph Marrec, a small-town pastor, and hustled them roughly onto a New York-bound plane, expelling them from Haiti for "reasons of internal security...
...theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned...