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Until a couple of years ago, says former President John J. Cavanaugh of Notre Dame University, U.S. Catholics sincerely believed that their schools, colleges and universities were generally as good as almost any in the land. Then Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, professor of church history at Catholic University of America, delivered his now famous lecture on "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life." Last week, taking off from Ellis' lecture. Father Cavanaugh sounded the alarm again. For 30 years, he said, evidence has been accumulating that "the intellectual prestige of American Catholics seems to be lower than the intellectual prestige...
...said Cavanaugh, a study conducted by the American Mercury found that "for every 100,000 Jews in this country, there are 20 listed in Who's Who; for every 100,000 Seventh-day Adventists, there are eleven in Who's Who; and that, however, for every 100,000 Catholics there are only seven in Who's Who-hardly more than one-third of the proportion of the Jews...
...Catholics, said Cavanaugh, cannot take much comfort in rationalizing that they are a minority group, an immigrant people, usually from modest homes. "At once, we reflect that the Jews are an immigrant people, very often from modest homes. They must fight bigotry, but the Jews are producing leaders far out of proportion to their numbers...
...Million. What the Catholics need to do, said Cavanaugh, is not only strengthen their schools and colleges, but recapture their tradition as intellectual leaders. Unfortunately, the 2,500,000 alumni of Catholic colleges and universities do not seem to be doing much of anything. "I am a member of the board of the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. In the last six years we have given away $29 million . . . Not a single Catholic program of liberal adult education has, so far as I can remember, received a dime. This has been due, not to bigotry...
Then Northeastern dumbfounded the crowd and bounced back to regain the lead at 7:27 of that period; Salvucci scored on a pass from Cavanaugh. After Cleary's goal, the varsity moved into the lead for the first time in the game as Lyle Guttu converted passes from Cleary and Paul Kelley...