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...intellectual vigor on campus, the share of Webster's 650 students going on to graduate schools has jumped from a tenth to a quarter. Two years ago, Sister Jacqueline won permission for several of Webster's teaching sisters to begin doctoral work at Michigan, Syracuse, Yale, Fordham and Notre Dame universities, and this additional training will fortify Webster's pursuit of excellence. Sister Jacqueline is perhaps proudest of the liaison of scholarship she has established with prominent non-Catholic professors, secular universities, and public school systems. A compliment that she cherishes is: "You have crossed over...
ROBERT I. GANNON, S.J., former president of Fordham University. . .L.H.D...
...four of his games this year. Del Rossi throttled Navy's powerful batsmen in his last outing and shouldn't have trouble with the Lions, who have scored few runs this spring. In fact last week the Columbia team was beaten on a no-hitter by Fordham's Gerry Mackin...
...only Catholic member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, C.U. is one of only three Catholic campuses with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter (others: Fordham and Minnesota's College of St. Catherine). Though its $16 million endowment is paltry, its 600,000-volume library is tops for Washington campuses. Its first-rate drama department has enlivened capital culture with some 200 plays attended by 550,000 people. It boasts the nation's only school of canon law, complete with a topflight lay lawyer who converted from Judaism. Sometimes called the "West Point of the U.S. clergy...
...Rector McDonald vetoed as "imprudent" a proposed C.U. symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...