Word: rectoric
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...addressing the Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Rector for the last quarter-century of St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, who knelt before him, pale and grave. In the chancel stood 35 bishops; 430 clergymen were ranked in files in the nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder to shoulder in those stalls not reserved for the ordained. Already Dr. Stires had received a magnificent Bible from Mrs. George Hardwick, his 80-year old mother-in-law; already 80 of his admiring colleagues had presented him with an amethyst ring; already the great procession -so long that the processional hymn...
...Iron Chancellor" was summoned, early one morning in his roistering student days, to give an account of his misdeeds to the Rector of his college. Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille. Becoming annoyed during the conversation which ensued, he picked up the Rector's inkstand, flung it at his head, missed, and strode from the office with the boar hound at heel...
...Andrews University, oldest in Scotland (1411), conducted its annual election of a Lord Rector with the usual horseplay. As at Glasgow the week before (TIME, Nov. 2), eggs flew and smelled, herrings smelled and flew, tomatoes smelled and smelled and smashed, and cold water cascaded from the galleries of the Student Union. Arctic Explorer Dr. Fridtiof Nansen of Norway was elected with 216 votes against 160 for Novelist John Galsworthy...
...Rector Nansen...
...election of a lord rector by the students is quite another thing. The qualifications of the candidates are too well known to necessitate campaign oratory and tubthumping. Solemnity is banished and the vote is one of hearty sentiment, not unmixed with good British horseplay and ribaldry...