Word: rectorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the death last February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. At the same time Al Azhar's position of Islamic leadership is threatened by a swirling current of social change, and by the emergent authority of two modern, secular universities (Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal...
...prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
...week it became evident that "Little Tui" had never really stopped thinking of his college work. On Sunday Bishop Wallace John Gardner of New Jersey mounted the pulpit of Trinity Church in Princeton, announced that the rector of Trinity, Boston, was resigning his pulpit, would take over the vacant rectorship of Trinity, Princeton, next September. There was no actual applause, but the congregation felt like cheering...