Word: hesburgh
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...reading, as thoughtful and searching an analysis of its educational system as it is likely to get. Source: the fourth report of the Special Studies Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.* The authors (among them: John W. Gardner, Carnegie Corporation of New York president; the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame; Sociologist David Riesman) are sharply critical of defects in U.S. education, and aware that the nation's future depends largely on whether these defects are mended...
Dartmouth College The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame LL.D...
...Theodore M. Hesburgh. 40, president of Notre Dame University. Father Hesburgh lists himself as a political "independent," has raised Notre Dame's academic standards since taking the presidency (at 35), plugged for more emphasis -on classic liberal-arts education, is the Vatican's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency...
...Notre Dame's saddest football season in history (2 won, 8 lost) had many an Irish alumnus-including Brennan's predecessor and mentor Frank Leahy-screaming for the scalp of young (28) Coach Terry Brennan. But Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., silenced the pack by giving Brennan a timely vote of confidence: "Coach Brennan was engaged in 1954 on a verbal agreement for three years . . . we are now re-engaging him for next year...
...past year the number of prize graduate fellowships won by Notre Dame students has gone up 2%, and scholarships have doubled since the war. Hesburgh abolished the law school's easygoing elective system, toughened the curriculum so much that enrollments slumped from 243 in 1953 to 141 this year. He added 65,000 volumes to the university's library, has seen the circulation of books double in five years. But all this, says he, is only the beginning. "We've got a long way to go. If we decide to expand 20 years from...