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...Russia was not invited. Nazi Germany, though invited, sent regrets. But delegates from 560 of the world's colleges, universities and learned societies, outnumbering by some 50 the turnout at Harvard's 1936 Tercentenary, turned up last week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jesuit Fordham University, second largest Roman Catholic university...
...Edwards Parade and up the broad stone steps of Gothic Keating Hall was Professor Albert Feuillerat of the University of Paris (founded early 12th Century). Five Catholic bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic archbishop] would have cried: 'This is Europe! . . . Our vision is looking back, not forward. This is the Paris of the 13th Century...
Bouncing among his guests, helping them to tea, conferring honorary degrees (in Latin) on Catholic Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, Baptist Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jewish Governor Lehman and twelve other bigwigs, small, genial President Gannon had a wonderful time. He showed his guests an up-to-date university: Fordham has a big-time football team, a world-famed seismograph (earthquake-recording) station, a Nobel Prize winner (Physicist Victor F. Hess), a downtown branch in the Woolworth Building, schools of law, business, social service, pharmacy. Of Fordham's 8,200 students, only 1,400 are in its liberal arts college...
...front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter Fordham's School of Education. Now 28, she wants to be a schoolteacher...
Chair. In Pine Plains, N.Y., Fordham Botany Professor William J. Bonisteel, immune to ivy poisoning, reserved his favorite chair perpetually by ringing it 'round with a poison ivy patch...