Word: dame
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Think about it. The most blessed team of all time--Notre Dame--is named after the Virgin Mary, and for decades Notre Dame slew the heathens of the NCAA. When former Coach Gerry Foust suffered his baptism by fire, however, he once ordered blue uniforms because, he said, blue is the color of the Blessed Virgin (seriously...
...Crimson senior will be returning to Harvard and to the ice this season. As expected, defenseman Mark Benning--who has a year of eligibility left because he played at a club level during his sophomore year at Notre Dame--will return to Cambridge for a fifth undergraduate year to work on his thesis and to patrol the Bright Center blue line...
...Harvard University. Despite the continuing challenge from such superb schools as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, under its patrician president Derek Bok, remains the gauge against which others are measured. As the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, puts it, Harvard is "the standard bearer and symbol of excellence...
...university seem not significantly diminished by such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give...
American reaction to the Vatican measure was sharply divided. Some Catholic liberals, like the Rev. Richard McBrien, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame, argued that the move would have a chilling effect on theologians, many of whom might leave Catholic colleges for teaching posts at non-Catholic schools. But conservatives hailed the move. James McFadden, lay editor of the conservative monthly Catholic Eye, compared Curran's position with "working for IBM and damning computers...