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...Southwest and Far West, where there is only a handful of separate colleges left, the College of Santa Fe, operated by the Christian Brothers, accepted its first female students last fall. Last month, all-girl Marymount College in suburban Los Angeles and Loyola University of Los Angeles, a Catholic men's school, announced their affiliation plans. Marymount will move from Palos Verdes Estates to the Loyola campus, near the Los Angeles International Airport, in 1968. Immaculate Heart, another women's school in Los Angeles, will join the coed Claremont Colleges, which pioneered the cluster-college concept...
...letters of inquiry, many including application forms, from nearly 300 colleges. Modest and softspoken, George ranks fourth out of the 407 students in his class, is class president and a varsity wrestler. He considered bids from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown and U.C.L.A.; he applied to Chicago, Northwestern, Loyola and Princeton. Accepted by all but Princeton, he chose Chicago because he plans to become a doctor and has a high opinion of its medical school. His two scholar ships, a National Merit Scholarship and an Illinois State Scholarship, will pay him a total of $2,500 a year. George credits much...
...Savonarola, who were burned at the stake before their ideas could gain momentum. And by the end of the 16th century, spiritual renewal of the church might have been achieved from within, perhaps by that charismatic figure of Rome's Counter Reformation, Ignatius Loyola...
...more than Loyola did Luther want to divide Christianity; for at least half of his life he was an unquestioningly loyal, devout Catholic, remarkable for his devotion in an age better known by its sinners than its saints. Born in 1483, the son of a Saxon miner, Luther had every intention of becoming a lawyer until, one day in 1505, he was caught in a sudden storm while walking toward the village of Stotternheim. A bolt of lightning knocked him to the ground, and Luther, terrified, called out to the church's patroness of miners: "St. Anne, help...
Incense has become a smell celebre in the L.A. area: Loyola University now fines students who burn it in dormitories; and at a West Los Angeles high school, a girl who lit some in the ladies' room was sent to the fire chief to be lectured. Yet the pungent odor is likely to linger on; legend has it that it masks the fumes of marijuana...