Word: rectorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...under a good photograph of Mr. Hughes, there is the following remark in fat print: "HUGHES AND SUPREME JUDGESHIP" Mr. Taft ought never to have named him. The senate ought never to have confirmed him. He was no more meant for the position than was Boss Murphy for the rectorship of Trinity Church...