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Other persons on the committee's original list of "twenty-five or thirty," and still believed in the running, are said to be the Rev. Theodore P. Ferris '29, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston, the Rev. H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at Yale; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister of the General Council of the Congregational Churches and husband of the former president of Wellesley; the Rev. John C. Bennett, professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and colleague of Reinhold Niobuhr; and John a. Hutchinson, professor of Religion at Williams College...
...recommended may include H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at the Yale Divinity School, and Theodore P. Ferris '29, rector of Trinity Church in Boston...
Miguel de Unamuno, a brilliant man with flashing eyes who wrote novels, plays and poems, was long considered, with Ortega y Gasset, Spain's most influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector...
...bust with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...cathedral, where she was baptized and married. At the foot of her coffin lay the rose of solid gold awarded her by Pope Leo II after she had signed the Golden Law. For three days Brazilians of all colors, free men all, passed in mournful procession. Said the rector of the University of Brazil: "Greater than the empire she lost was her title, Isabel the Redemptress...