The pair had been due to meet on Friday to mark the retirement of Campbell's brother as the piper at Glasgow University, where Kennedy previously served as rector.
This is not quite true – Newton continued being a slave trader after he had converted to Christianity, did not speak out against slavery until 30 years after he left the trade, and became a rector.
Kennedy had referred to his long friendship with Murdo Macdonald in his acceptance speech on his election as rector of Glasgow University in 2008; the two men had run Glasgow University Union, one of two student unions on campus, in 1980-81.
Last week another Scottish head, Robert Kelly, rector of Berwickshire High in Duns, said short skirts were encouraging "inappropriate thoughts" among boys.
Third-year male journalism students were ordered to the cotton fields by the rector and faculty deacon, says the letter, which appeared on the website last week.
"Today is a particularly poignant day because Charles was due to be joining me at a farewell party for my brother Donald, who is retiring from his role as official piper at Glasgow University where Charles was once rector.
Although the heat has barely cooled from Tsiskaridze's disputes with the Bolshoi management and his name continues to be linked with the trial of Pavel Dmitrichenko, who was accused of the acid attack on ballet director Sergei Filin, he has just been appointed rector of the Vaganova Academy, in St Petersburg.
It is addressed to the prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev; the prosecutor's office; the National Security Service; the higher education ministry; and the university rector, Mirzo Mukhamedov.
One is the centenary of the poet RS Thomas, who was at one-time rector of a parish close to Gregynog; the other, almost inevitably, is the Britten centenary, honouring a composer who, just four years before his death, gave a recital at the festival with Peter Pears and harpist Osian Ellis.
In 1975 the precocious rector of Edinburgh University brushed nationalism aside as: "less an assertion of Scotland's permanence as a nation than a response to Scotland's uneven development".
Since then, Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris Mosque, who has long been seen as the voice of the old Muslim establishment and allied to Algeria, has led the CFCM under a pact loosely dressed up as an election.
