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...Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March...
Though 85% of its students are Roman Catholics, only a handful go into the Jesuit order. Courses in religion, required for Catholics, are optional for non-Catholics. But all students in liberal arts must take four years of philosophy, the core of the curriculum. Today, says President Gianera, Santa Clara's mission is just what it always was: "To give a sound Christian education to men who must deal with the problems of modern living...
...Among 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. (total enrollment: 88,000), Santa Clara ranks 21th in size. The biggest: Fordham...
...East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...
High Road & Low. The A.W.U. is a new waterfront organization sponsored by a burly Jesuit priest named Walter B. Hogan. Philadelphia-born Father Hogan was in the Philippines before the war as a teacher. In 1946 he was sent back to found the Ateneo de Manila's Institute of Social Order, to promote Catholic labor unionism. An outspoken opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned...