Word: gannonized
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...member of the board is a physician and a Gannon-Dr. James A., forthright brother of Fordham's forthright President Robert I. Gannon...
...Bunk!" cried Dr. Gannon. "I use alcohol and tobacco moderately myself, and so do 95% of the people. It not only prolongs life but makes it more enjoyable. There is no method that we doctors have that is better to combat fever than a good application of alcohol...
...Gannon moved that the course be rewritten by three doctors, stripped of "misinformation...
...Academic freedom, a "mumbo jumbo" that allows any educator "the privilege of uprooting all the true foundations of life." (Fordham follows Father Gannon's precept: "Students should be taught obedience to the constituted authority simply because it is the constituted authority. . . We do not expect to argue with a Fordham freshman. We expect them to do as they are told...
...Father Gannon is noteworthy among Catholic college presidents for his outspokenness (most of his colleagues let the hierarchy do the talking), for publishing Fordham's annual accounts (unwritten Catholic law is to avoid public financial statements whenever possible), and for the fact that he is apparently scheduled to head his university for an indefinite period. Few presidents of Catholic colleges serve more than a set term, which in the 68 Jesuit-run schools (including Fordham) is six years. Father Gannon's term would normally have been up last June, but his superiors got round its regulation by appointing...