The archdukes will bear me out how often I have spoken to them on this subject, and how I have begged them to write nothing on my behalf to the General or to the provincial; but they insist that if I lay down the Rectorate I must retain the confessorship.
"Studies from Court and Cloister"
J.M. Stone
At the head of a German university stands the rector, or more commonly, the prorector, since the Rectorate is generally retained by the sovereign princes in their own hands, as is the case in Baden.
"The Student-Life of Germany"
William Howitt
He could expect nothing beyond a possible Rectorate in the remote distance, with one of those little pony chapels to preach in, which, if it were set up on a stout pole, would pass for a good-sized martin-house.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)