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During the five-week course just concluded at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, all the rough-and-tumble of tumultuous Jersey politics was aired in the classroom. Under the benign prodding of St. Peter's chairman of political science, a Jesuit priest named Francis P. Canavan, local politicians blabbed trade secrets with such candor that the course drew more than a hundred students from all walks of life, regularly made Jersey headlines...
Morality & Politics. Father Canavan not only brought politicians into the class room; he also took his students out into politics. Last fall he had them round up signatures to get a referendum on the ballot authorizing a reorganization study of Jersey City's commission-type government. When the referendum won, entrenched politicians grumbled that Canavan's students were paid off in good grades...
...Canavan never lets practical poli tics escape the discipline of theory. A member of the American Political Science Association, he spent a year in England researching a recently published book, The Political Reason of Edmund Burke: "The fascinating thing about Burke was that he was able to reconcile morality with politics...
...Canavan maintained that the purpose of the recommittal was to permit the committee members to reach a decision uninfluenced by "lobbying pressure...
Insurance companies, Canavan charged, have advertised in the newspapers against this bill in an attempt to "rail-road" its rejection through the House...