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...extreme to say that in many cases [Catholic] classes of philosophy are used to form defending debaters of Catholic positions. Philosophy is not envisaged as a personal quest for truth but rather as a predigested apologetic of religious belief. Young men, firm in their faith and lovers of debate, esteem this highly, but they escape the encounter with scholarship...
Citation: "Today we esteem you most for a quality that, if it partially explains your successes, dwarfs them all: your profound understanding of people...
...universities in Poland, none is held in higher esteem among true scholars-and none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
Despite its growth, both in numbers and in the esteem in which it is held by members of the academic world, the Society is today little known to the average undergraduate. This is due partly to its loosely defined status within the University and partly to the manner in which it has avoided drawing attention to itself. In 1948, on the fifteenth anniversary of its founding, a brief history of the Society was written for limited distribution by George C. Homans '32, Professor of Sociology, and Orville T. Bailey, a former professor at the Medical School. Another small booklet catalogued...
...characterized by head-bumping, clothes-ripping, hair-pulling and name-calling, with the entire cast pitching in until the cops arrived. Yma's dark glasses fell off in the struggle, disclosing a black eye that had been presented earlier by her husband as a token of his esteem. Wailed Vivanco in court at week's end: "I and the members of my household are in fear of our lives...