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...article closes with a prediction that under the regime of President Fliot, the University would do much in the way of starting anew and breaking with the traditions of more than 200 years, remaining ever true, however, to its twin mottes. "Veritas" and "Christo et Ecclesiae...
...Frederic Brady, chairman of New York Edison Co., director of 50 other companies (mostly utilities), 'greatest lay Catholic." Probably closer to and more respected by the Vatican than any other U. S. citizen, Nicholas Brady was first in the U. S. to receive the title Ordine Supremo del Christo, a Catholic honor far more distinguished than the Laetare Medal, awarded last year to Alfred Emanuel Smith, and this year (last week) to Frederick P. Kenkel, St. Louis editor (see p. 40). The Brady donations to the Vatican were many, large, discreet. A constant visitor to his last bedside...
...four years spent at college are in many ways the most impressionable of a man's life, not only intellectually, but emotionally and spiritually as well. To the average undergraduate "Christo of Ecclesiae" no longer fills his emotional and spiritual needs. Philosophy, merely as a science, does not fill it either. Contact with the inspirational personality of some faculty member may very well take the place of both, or at least tide over the critical period. Certainly it is a conclusion well worth thinking about, both for those who choose, the faculty and those who work under their leadership...
Every week or two some critic cries out in print that something is wrong with American universities. One fault finder blames commercial tendencies; another says too many are going to college; still another points to "Christo et Ecclesiae" upon the Harvard seal and says that Harvard and other universities turned their backs on "Veritas" when they ceased to emphasize the fundamentals of religion. Whatever the specific charge, there seems to be a general agreement that something is wrong...
...master of the dog peered into a culvert at his foaming canine, started, peered more closely, drew back, crossed himself, exclaimed: Santa, Madre di Gesu Christo, rushed off for the Carabinieri...