In 1923 Rudyard Kipling, then the Rector of the University of St Andrews, visited University College and asked the merchant princes and leading citizens of Dundee to give the College their money and support.

However, over increasing problems with the Dozentenbund, Wilhelm Stortz, University Rector, asked Ewald to leave.

Calvin, upon returning to Geneva, asked Castellio to join him in 1542 as Rector of the Collège de Genève.

" Castellio was forced to resign from his position of Rector and asked to be dismissed from being a preacher in Vandoeuvres.

His arm had been giving him some trouble and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to determine whether it had healed improperly or whether Hino was simply rebelling against the tedious work in the print shop, using the stiffness in his arm as an excuse.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday, nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions.

As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall, Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him.

In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather contacted a successful businessman in Wales named Elihu Yale to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college.

Bodley wanted his librarian to be " some one that is noted and knowen for a diligent Student, and in all his conuersation to be trustie, actiue, and discreete, a graduat also and a Linguist, not encombred with mariage, nor with a benefice of Cure ", although James was able to persuade Bodley to let him get married and to become Rector of St Aldate's Church, Oxford.

He was appointed Principal from ' a very peaceful retirement ' as Rector of Sudborough, where he was personal tutor to two brothers, who were both destined to be prime minister — Thomas Pelham-Holles and Henry Pelham — bringing the younger with him to Hart Hall.

Anthemius elevated Bilimer to the rank of Rector Galliarum and had him enter Italy with the loyal army.

Robert was sent to finish his education at the Scots College, Paris, of which his uncle was Rector, and made such progress in study as to gain the admiration of his teachers, specially of his uncle, who offered to make him his heir if he would remain in France, and join the Roman Catholic Church.

During their relationship, Ray bore him at least five and perhaps as many as nine children, including Basil Montagu ( 1770 – 1851 ), writer, jurist and philanthropist Tragedy was to strike again in April 1779 when Ray was murdered in the foyer of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden by a jealous suitor, James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton.

When he eventually did, Reverend John Strachan ( who held no official position other than Rector of York at the time ) first brusquely tried to force him to sign the articles for capitulation on the spot, then accused Chauncey to his face of delaying the capitulation to allow the American troops licence to commit outrages.

Rector Street in Little Rock is named after him.

In 1999 he was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow as the candidate of the Glasgow University Labour Club, but resigned in 2001 after the Glasgow University Students ' Representative Council passed a motion requesting him to do so.

On April 21, 2006, Powell was elected the Rector of the Board of Visitors, making him the first African-American to serve in that post in the College's 313 year history.

Back to the academic career while maintaining formally important political functions such as executive president of the National Union, Caetano was the 9th Rector of the University of Lisbon from 1959 on, but the Academic Crisis of 1962 led him to resign after protesting students clashed with riot police in the university's campus.

On March 24, Rector ’ s sister convinced him to turn himself in.

As Officer Martin turned away to continue his conversation with Mrs. Rector, Ricky Ray Rector drew his pistol from behind his back and fired two shots into Officer Martin, striking him in the jaw and neck.

The Rector Major, instead of listening to Father Hecker, expelled him from the Order for having made the journey to Rome without sufficient authorization.

When his superiors ( i. e., John Bosco, or his Rector, or his confessor ) came to know this, they forbade him from doing bodily mortification, as it would affect his health.

Perón appointed him Rector of the University of Buenos Aires in March 1974, though the president's death that July led to Solano Lima's retirement from public life, days later.

The following year the students of St Andrew's University elected Constantine as Rector, but again his health prevented him performing effectively in this role.

Science High School officially left the Rector Street building in November 2006 to move to its new location adjacent to Newark's Science Park.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

he knew the fundamentals, and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector, announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.

The altercation in the coffee house had done little to dampen his spirits, but he was still a little wary around Rector for they had not yet discussed the incident.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.

In 1508 he went to Paris on the invitation of Louis XII as professor of belles lettres, and held for a time the position of Rector of the University of Paris.

Henri de Roy ( Henricus Regius, 1598 – 1679 ), Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht, was condemned by the Rector of the University, Gijsbert Voet ( Voetius ), for teaching Descartes's physics.

After the war, Heidegger was banned from university teaching for a period on account of his activities as Rector of Freiburg University.

Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff, Rector at Heidelberg by that time, would resume Derrida's place as: " Beyond the boundaries of philosophy as an academic discipline he was a leading intellectual figure not only for the humanities but for the cultural perception of a whole age.

In the Netherlands, the terms Rector and Conrector ( assistant head ) are used commonly for high school directors.

In Dutch universities, the Rector Magnificus is the member of the executive board of the university responsible for the scientific vision and quality of the university.

Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was Rector of the University of Edinburgh while a student there, but since then most universities have amended their procedures to forbid currently matriculated students from standing for election.

The title Rector is sometimes used for the head of a subordinate and geographically separate campus of a university.

* In a few ' Crown lands ' of the Austrian Empire, one seat in the Landtag ( regional legislature of semi-feudal type ) was reserved for the Rector of the capital's university, notably: Graz in Steiermark ( Styria ), Innsbruck in Tirol, Wien ( Vienna ) in Nieder-Österreich ( Lower Austria ); in Bohemia, two Rectors seated in the equivalent Landesvertretung