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...especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...
...glowing, donnishly funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
...resident staff, to be enriched next year by writer Thornton Wilder and several assistant professors, mixes enthusiastically with Dunster's 345 residents ad maiorem gloriam dinner table education. The House leads all others in the number of staff tutors with 11--enough for one in every entry...
...Posoudolus," the local contribution ad maiorem glorium classical drama had a dress rehearsal last night and will open at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Agassiz Theatre, 24 hour's after the time announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
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