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...neighbor, Saint Mary's College (1,507 women), was founded in 1855 as the nation's first degree-granting Catholic women's college. Until she retired last year, Saint Mary's was graced by one of Catholicism's finest college presidents, Sister M. Madeleva, a noted poet. Its aim: to educate women "for immortality, for infinity, for the Beatific Vision...
...spectrum. Among them: Novelists Evelyn Waugh, D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Kathleen Norris, Journalists Vincent Sheean, Rebecca West and Whittaker Chambers, Sportswriter Paul Gallico, Poet Alfred Noyes and Moviemaker John Farrow. The majority are Roman Catholics, and all but two-Trappist Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton and Sister Madeleva, president of Indiana's St. Mary's College-are laymen...
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