Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Masse, editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, wrote that good Roman Catholics could not be Birchers. There is, said...
...Jesuit-run Boston College (enrollment: 8,500) is a coeducational commuter college that has put up 19 new buildings in 14 years, is currently raising $40 million for more. A rallying point for the Boston Irish since 1863, B.C. turns out 20% of all practicing lawyers in Massachusetts...
...posts abroad. President: the Very Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Most famous former student (law): Lyndon Johnson. Also in the "Catholic Ivy League," and considered by many Catholics to be academically superior to Georgetown, is Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass. Forty percent of its freshmen still pursue the prized Jesuit A.B. degree. Holy Cross has 88 Jesuits and 60 laymen to teach 1,827 "wall-to-wall Irish" men students, retains compulsory daily Mass...
...York City's Jesuit-run Fordham University (10,750 students) opened on a farm in 1841, got engulfed by the spreading city. Among other things, Fordham is noted for its 51-year-old seismic station, the Jesuit quarterly Thought, and schools of law and social service. Headed by urbane, witty Father Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Fordham is now building a $25 million campus at Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...number of other Catholic schools fall into the mass-production or good-small categories. Jesuits run the University of Detroit (10,957 students) and three Loyola Universities, named for the order's founder, in Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Also Jesuit-controlled: Wisconsin's Marquette University, though it now has only 60 Jesuits (and 420 lay teachers) for 10,300 students; Creighton University in Omaha, headed by the Very Rev. Carl Reinert, younger brother of St. Louis' president; and the University of Santa Clara (1,400 students), oldest college in California...