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...highceilinged, red-curtained office, Louvain's Rector Magnificus, The Most Rev. Albert Descamps, plays for time. "There will be no spectacular solution," he said last week. "There will be accommodations, arrangements. I think we will continue with unity at the top and more and more division at the bottom." To Economics Professor Jacques Dreze, a member of a ten-man commission set up by the university two months ago to study the issue, the future of Louvain depends on the political future of Belgium, and he is gloomy on grounds that the aspirations of cultural or racial communities...
...spirit shown by the world's bishops. Holy Office Consuitor Antonio Piolanti, Rector Magnificus of the Lateran University, warned that "there are rationalist theologians going about Rome seducing innocent foreign bishops," and ominously told one of his classes: "Remember, the Pope can be deposed if he falls into heresy." In the preparatory stage, Cardinal Ottaviani had rejected any help from the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Said an Ottaviani aide: "We don't need you. We judge you." Rome's right-wing press joined in with frequent attacks on the direction of the council...
...last time Walter Hallstein saw the Statue of Liberty, he was wearing the uniform of a prisoner of war. Last week ex-Wehrmacht Lieut. Hallstein was back in the U.S., dressed this time in the neat suit befitting his eminent position as Rector Magnificus (president) of the University of Frankfurt. He had come to teach at Washington's Georgetown University and make a year-long survey of U.S. education. This week Georgetown students heard him describe university life in 1948 Germany, and learned that by comparison U.S. collegians, for all their congested campuses, have it pretty easy...
Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...
...itself. Famed Classicist Gilbert Murray summed up the opinion of many a don: "Perfectly monstrous!" Last week Oxford with graceful malice planned to send to Germany not a delegate but an address "extolling the greatness of German learning in the past." Hopping mad when only Cambridge accepted, Rector Magnificus Groh belatedly withdrew the rest of his British invitations...
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