Word: scholasticism
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When the black-robed, Jesuit community of New York's Fordham University sat down to lunch in the refectory one noon last week, Aloysius Joseph Hogan was at the head of the table as well as the college, with Robert Ignatius Gannon on his right. When the community rose...
Although most Jesuits, after 13 years of secluded study, have left home and family well behind, many a New Yorker recognized Fordham's new head as a native. Son of the late President Frank Stanislaus Gannon of Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a...
The highest scholastic distinction in the College, that of an A.B. or S.B. with summa cum laude went to a near record breaking number of undergraduates, 21. This figure has been equalled only in 1930 and exceeds by ten those given last year.
Mr. Conant, in the eyes of undergraduates, has placed too much emphasis on scholarship, as such. His approach is too scientific, designed for graduate schools more than for an undergraduate college. His desire to raise scholastic standards should be supported, his research is necessary if the University is to live...
The men who will be chosen to fill these new roving professorships of necessity must be broadminded and open-minded; they must be capable of the critical digestion of great funds of knowledge. All important, they must be practical, must be able to turn out a finished, pruned product which...