What is "rectorship"

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In the following year he received and declined the virtual offer of the Lord Rectorship of the University of St.

Andrews has honourably sought to choose men distinguished for literary eminence, and to make the Rectorship a tribute at once of intellectual and moral esteem.

In 1884 he was again invited, and again declined, to stand for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St.

He was engaged in the composition of a letter to the parents of an inmate who had died, and though he had written countless such missives over the twenty-odd years of his rectorship, and though the deceased boy had been a sniveler, a liar, and good-for-nothing, Father de St.

Though only forty-six years old, twenty of which have been passed in the rectorship of Eversley, an enumeration of his works shows him to have written theology, philosophy, poetry, and romance.

Poland, France, Spain, Malta, lectures all over England, lively contests for the Lord Rectorship of three universities, London again and again--for editing, mock trials, debates and Distributist Beanos--and frequently in furnished flats which Frances would take for the winter months.

That freedom of utterance which cost him the rectorship at Speyer, was like Dr.

During this period he was guilty of that crowning folly, the acceptance of the Rectorship of the Gymnasium at Padua, he felt the sharpest stings of poverty, and his life was overshadowed by dire physical misfortune.

Only by accepting the rectorship of Honiton was the bishop himself able to support the dignity of his office.

Colin, the Englishman, our clerk, has entered the same Order, as also two others of our companions, Michael and Dom Matthew, to whom I had given the rectorship of the Sainte Chapelle.

Lord Rectorship, which led to this brilliant gathering, must be our excuse for dwelling upon it at such length.

A letter from the rector since had warned him that they were full of enthusiasm about his sermon and himself and that a call to the rectorship of the church was imminent.

Hulme resigned the rectorship of the university college to return to England, where his outstanding scientific talent was required in the British atomic research team led by Sir William Penney.

I ailing but I am lacking in funds, and emperor for emperor and monarch for monarch, in Naples I have the great Count of Lemos, who, without all the provisos of colleges and rectorships, sustains me and protects me and does me more good turns than I could ever desire.

During this period he was guilty of that crowning folly, the acceptance of the Rectorship of the Gymnasium at Padua, he felt the sharpest stings of poverty, and his life was overshadowed by dire physical misfortune.