Rectorship

The student-chairs were rather endowments for the Rectorship or for poor scholars than serious rivals to the ordinary professorships, and the extra-ordinary lectures delivered by students or bachelors may be regarded as a kind of apprenticeship for future doctors.

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

They may be elected to the Academic Senate and to the Rectorship, the Rector or Chancellor not being appointed for life, but changing yearly, -- the various faculties being represented in turn.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

Nothing more occurred; but, four or five days afterwards, my friend received a letter from the Earl of Hyndford, in which that nobleman, after stating that he had satisfied himself as to his piety and ability as a teacher, made him an offer of the Rectorship of the

Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest And Other Stories M. E. Bewsher

His first preferment was the Rectorship of Campsie, in 1519, when he was designed "Clericus S. Andreæ Diocesis;" and in that year he was made

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Melville was deprived of the Rectorship of the University.

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

Rectorship which, after the decline of the Universitates themselves, had outlived its usefulness.

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

Honors came slowly, but surely: Oxford with a degree; Saint Andrew's with a Lord-Rectorship; publishers with advance payments.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

But he found time only for a short tour in Scotland before returning to Oxford to complete the series of lectures on recent English Art. During this term he was prevailed upon to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for the Rectorship of the University of Glasgow.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

Smith attended to those duties with uncommon diligence; he says himself, in his letter to the Principal of Glasgow College in 1787 on his appointment to the Rectorship, that he was so regular an attendant at the Custom House that he could “take the play for a week at any time” without giving offence or provoking comment.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

It may be mentioned that some time elapsed after Sir Thomas Miller's election to the Rectorship before he was able to appoint a Vice-Rector, because he could not appoint a Vice-Rector till he was himself admitted, and he could not attend personally to be admitted on account of engagements elsewhere.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895