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This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rectorial election had come and had gone, but another great event had taken its place.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

John Stuart Mill's rectorial address to the St. Andrews students is remarkable.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles

In 1882 he was elected lord rector of the university of Glasgow, and Dr Dale wrote of his rectorial address: "It was not the old Bright."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The records, of Florence afford an illustration of the checks upon the rectorial power, to which we have referred in speaking of the typical Student-University at Bologna.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.