Word: rectoring
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More than half a century ago, a Manhattan rector refused to perform in his church Lie burial service of an actor who had been greatly loved by his fellow stage-folk. He suggested, however, that there was a little church around the corner which might...
...John B. Peterson, rector of the St. John's Seminary at Brighton, is to be the speaker at the meeting to be held in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. His subject will be "Roman Catholicism...
...Reverend John Howard Melish, B.D., Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, New York, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
...fact remained, however, that the Louvain Library was not being built-and this fact was brought home to that good friend of Belgium, U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, onetime food controller in that land, by Mgr. Ladeuze, Rector of the University. As the man who has never undertaken anything for Belgium that "has not been completed in the fullest sense," the good Rector appealed to Mr. Hoover for additional aid. Said he: "As you are aware, the construction of the new library was undertaken by an American group headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler some four years...
...universities belong either to the state or to the city. There are no private colleges and no presidents. There is a Rector at the head of the university, but he is elected for one year only. German universities are much closer to Oxford and Cambridge in their organization than they are to Harvard...