Some articles on university, university rector, rector:
... Franzensuniversität zu Olmütz (1828–1855) The university came out of the revolution as essentially bilingual (Czech and German) institution ... In due course the university's support for the democratisation and the Czech National Revival brought retribution from the government in Vienna ... In 1860 Emperor Franz Joseph I closed virtually the whole university ...
... Hjelt served as vice rector of the University of Helsinki from 1896 till 1899 and as rector from 1899 till 1917 ... Hjelt was able to reduce the pressure on the students and the university and also to stop aggressive reaction of the students to the oppression ...
Famous quotes containing the words rector and/or university:
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)