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...made mathematics compulsory for all liberal arts freshmen, has ordered tougher assignments all along the line. Though Notre Dame still offers a degree in physical education, Hesburgh has slashed the number of trade-school courses a student will be allowed to take. He has imported a galaxy of star visiting lecturers-e.g., Historian Arnold Toynbee, Classicist Sir Richard Livingstone, Theologian Martin D'Arcy, S.J., and has given the university an impressive set of stars of its own-e.g., Mathematician Vladimir Seidel, Biochemist Charles E. Brambel, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic...
...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...
...JAMES L. HESBURGH Notre Dame...