Word: rectorships
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...years ago Emerson was chosen candidate by the students of Glasgow University for the Lord Rectorship. He was defeated by Disraeli, who obtained 700 votes to Emerson...
...Gibson, after his defeat for the lord rectorship of St. Andrews, telegraphed to Mr. Lowell to congratulate him and to say that no one recognized more readily than himself Mr. Lowell's eminence and superior claims...
...change has been made in the rectorship of the University of Berlin...
...James R. Lowell is candidate for the Rectorship of St. Andrews University, Scotland. His opponent is Mr. W H. Mallock, the author, who is at present the favorite...
...unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there was manifested a spirit of turbulence. The universities often exemplified this fact; and it was found necessary to establish a government within themselves, the leading feature of which was the office called the rectorship, the incumbent of which had the power of internal regulation with both a civil and criminal jurisdiction; so started the university. The idea took; and, in three centuries, many of the leading towns in Italy, France, and the German Empire, had their universities, while in England arose Oxford and Cambridge...