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...president of America's biggest Roman Catholic university last week admitted publicly that he had been wrong-something that President Roosevelt himself has never done except about Thanksgiving. The author of this graceful admission is that urbanely dogmatic Jesuit, the very square-jawed Very Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon S.J., who made it to his own students at the formal opening of Fordham's joist academic year...
...Father Gannon is an educator who never lacks positive convictions. Among his pet bugaboos...
...yard Relay--Won by Providence (Despres, Lisy, Soltysiak, Gannon); second, Harvard (Harting, Houston, Ball Jones). Time...
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...
...Father Gannon looks back with longing to the days when scholars were concerned only with art and philosophy. Said he at the final centenary ceremony...