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After failing at Bob Jones College, Billy went to the Florida Bible Institute near Tampa. Still, he might never have become a preacher-his marks at the institute were poor-if he had not met Emily Cavanaugh...
...most important thing he did at Wheaton was to court his future wife, Ruth McCue Bell, a pretty, vivacious China missionary's daughter (Emily Cavanaugh had in the meantime married her Harvard man). Said he in a recent sermon: "I tell you ... the first time I kissed [my wife], I don't know whether she had any emotion, but I sure did. And when you fall in love with Jesus, you are. going to feel it ... Now if I had married all the girls ... I wanted to marry, the Lord only knows where I would have been tonight...
After the season a tremendous controversy started over de-emphasis. The Debate Council scheduled a giant meeting where Captain Cheek was to attack football emphasis. But when the debate was opened to include outsiders--Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post and Frank "Iron Man" Cavanaugh, Boston College coach--Cheek withdrew. The CRIMSON ran an editorial calling for deemphasis, and at the debate Cavanaugh bitterly attacked the Crimeds, adding that anyone at Dartmouth who suggested that football was overemphasized would be shot at dawn. Cunningham added that "strangely enough, you seldom hear the attack launched by football men. The rabid reformers...
...Cavanaugh, the major problem of modern life-"in fact, the problem facing all educators since ancient times-is to find a method by which the proper moral habits may be formed." One method he has tried is an experimental great books program for 50 selected students. As Father Cavanaugh sees it, the purpose of the course is to provide more than a mere speaking acquaintance with the great ideas. "We accept as valid the Christian tradition," says he, "and in the great books we show that tradition at work in the history of Western thought...
...goes well, Father Cavanaugh hopes that the great books will become a part of the whole curriculum, and if not, at least the idea behind them. After more than a quarter-century at Notre Dame as student and teacher, his own definition of a truly educated man is the same as it was on the day he first entered the priesthood -"One who knows what God wants him to do and has the discipline...