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...would like to see lot of focus on elementary and secondary education," says Notre Dame University President Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, a prominent American educator. "You can have all the Harvards in the world, and it won't matter without primary and secondary education...
Father Theodore Hesburgh, 65, president of the University of Notre Dame, is not worried about the debate within the church over the propriety of the bishops' actions. Says he: "You can't move through the water this fast without a lot of turbulence around the edges." The situation, he thinks, is stabilizing. And Hesburgh praises the pastoral characteristics of today's bishops: their concern with humanity as well as with doctrine. "They embrace what is good," says Hesburgh, "and a little imperfection too. They know that it's better to encourage little flowers than to sweep...
Students naturally respond to the economy's needs. The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, complained last year that "the most popular course on the American college campus is not literature...
University of Notre Dame President the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia: "The nuclear threat is indeed the greatest moral problem of all times. For Theodore Hesburgh the years of the nuclear age, we humans have been painting ourselves into a corner. As Albert Einstein said, 'The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.' Perhaps the worst attitude is to say that nothing can be done about it, that tensions between nations cannot be relieved, that the ultimate destiny of all that...
...face of it, Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, Calif., Willie Hollingsworth of Freeport, N.Y., and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, 64, president of the University of Notre Dame, would not appear to have a lot in common. But this year they are all set to be included in that uncommon nominator, the Guinness Book of World Records: Williams for blowing the largest bubble-gum bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next...