Word: basilian
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...find Catholic colleges too weak in scholarship and secular colleges too shy of religion, a lively campus in Canada beckons with a rare formula for the "best of both worlds." St. Michael's College, which has 1,260 Catholic students, 15% of them American, is run by the Basilian Fathers. Yet it is integrated with the tax-supported University of Toronto (17,000 students), a federation of five Oxford-style colleges. As a result, coed "St. Mike's" offers the intellectual stimulus and ample curriculum of a major secular university plus the religious spirit of a Catholic college...
...other arts colleges have their own dormitories, faculties and particularly strong courses, which are open to students of any other college. All schools get indirect provincial and federal help in the form of grants based on enrollment. Otherwise, St. Michael's is financed from tuition, a Basilian Fathers subsidy, and the bonus of having many unpaid priests as teachers...