Word: dame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finish Radcliffe still held a one-seat lead, though the winner was not clear until the official announcement minutes later. Williams was a distant third, ten seconds behind Radcliffe's 5:23.6, while Notre Dame was fourth in the seven-boat field...
Last year the lights finished third behind B.U. and a surprisingly strong Notre Dame crew...
Hesburgh searched for one letter in particular, a reply from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who had been offered a Notre Dame degree this year. He finally found it: a polite no. Hesburgh was disappointed-but he had already landed his friend Jimmy Carter as the commencement speaker. The graduation ceremony will be a deliberate show of support for Carter on human rights, one of Hesburgh's passions. Hesburgh will award degrees to Bishop Donal Lament, who was ousted from Rhodesia; Stephen Cardinal Kim, who has fought against government repression in South Korea; and Paul Cardinal Arnes, who has spoken out against...
Though he is popularly viewed as a kind of Catholic Mr. Chips, Hesburgh is now held in such awe by Notre Dame students that they seldom deal personally with him. Student Body President Mike Gassman says he would not dare interrupt the president with ordinary school problems because "he's too important now." Another student says, "Father Ted is usually too busy playing world savior." Both of them are swift to add, however, they think Hesburgh is the main force behind Notre Dame's stress on values...
...need for prestige or power, or is it his need to keep building for the greater glory of his God? His answer is just to keep working. He turns 60 this month and has no plans to retire. Instead, he announced a week ago that Notre Dame is undertaking the largest fund-raising drive in its history. $130 million. "Show me the top ten endowments," says Hesburgh, "and I'll show you the top ten schools in the country." Notre Dame's campaign will lift it close to the top ten, but everybody knows in the long...