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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...
Coates is one of the gems in this glittering, endearing ensemble of eccentric Englishmen. Dame Edith Sitwell collected her eccentrics nearly 30 years ago, when she and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell were daring moderns, and their father, Sir George Sitwell-not included in this book -was setting one of the most glorious examples of eccentricity in English history (he was an aristocrat with an almost Renaissance-like variety of interests, including the invention of a musical tooth-brush). English Eccentrics, now revised and expanded, is still as fresh, invigorating and delightful as on the day it was written...
...Dame Edith believes that eccentricity is particularly British chiefly for two reasons: 1) "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark of the British nation," 2) "all great gentlemen are eccentric [because] their gestures are not born to fit the conventions or the cowardice of the crowd." Cynical sociologists might remark that it is not gentlemanliness that makes for eccentricity so much as having lots of money with which to buy absolute liberty. Among the scores of eccentrics cited, a great many were born with silver spoons in their mouths and golden bees in their bonnets...
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Simply snagging Crow for the Aggie team was a triumph for Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. John Crow had been tripping over college scouts ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma. There was so much activity around the Crow home that N.C.A.A. investigators kept snooping for under-the-table payoffs long after Coach Bryant's bird dogs had carried John David...