Word: hesburgh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalizing the rules and brightening the students, Notre Dame's President Theodore M. Hesburgh has been trying to create the liveliest Roman Catholic university in the U.S. But in the past "winter of discontent," as he and Jack Kennedy put it, Hesburgh has been repaid with student editorials crying for freer rules and for his removal in favor of "a renowned lay educator." Result: faculty censorship of three articles in the magazine Scholastic, the resignation of three student editors; and a sizzling letter from Hesburgh to all 6,700 students...
Says Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh: "We better understand the job that is before us. The challenge is to make religion relevant to real life...
...reporter of the Father Hesburgh cover story [Feb. 9], I would like to correct what may be a wrong impression left by the statement that among the first acts of Father Hesburgh, as Notre Dame executive vice president, was the replacement of Clarence Manion as dean of the law school. Father Hesburgh became executive vice president of Notre Dame in 1949- In January of 1952, Dean Manion resigned for personal reasons, because of pressure of his private business interests. Father John Cavanaugh, who was then president of Notre Dame, in accepting Dean Manion's resignation, said that "his career...
...Artist Koerner painted Father Hesburgh with a Giotto madonna, an atomic equation and a chemical formula to "represent the changeless and the changing-both in Hesburgh's domain." The portrait took a week of intensive sittings, and Koerner felt that "Hesburgh helped me paint it just by being a man of great capacity for compassion and passion." The artist also came away impressed by the subject's sense of discipline: "He would hold the pose for two or three hours without moving a finger...
...committed to Truth," says Hesburgh, "living in a world where most academic endeavor concerns only natural truth, as much separated from supernatural truth, the divine wisdom of theology, as sinful man was separated from God before the Incarnation. If these extremes are to be united, a work of mediation is needed. We must somehow match secular or state universities in their comprehension of a vast spectrum of natural truths in the arts and sciences, while at the same time we must be in full possession of our own true heritage of theological wisdom...