Word: marist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concern over the proper utilization of resources has led a number of Catholic educators to consider alternatives to the parochial school as a means of providing religious education. One highly promising experiment is now under way in La Porte, Ind., where four Marist Brothers have set up an informal Christian teaching laboratory that has no texts, no formal classes, and no compulsory attendance-the students are all volunteers...
...member Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded in 1680 by France's St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle. They operate eight colleges and 96 high schools in the U.S.; the schools in California benefit from the profits of the famed Napa Valley winery. Next in size are the Marist Brothers (10,400) and the Irish Christian Brothers...
...both a priest and a psychologist, Father Raymond A. Roesch, 46, is a persuasive fellow. Last year he became president of the Roman Catholic Marist University of Dayton, which needs persuasion. Dayton is one of the biggest private colleges (6,296 students) in a state brimful of good ones, but its main products are piety and basketball. Some of its academic departments operate on budgets as low as $1,000 a year. Last week Father Roesch passed on some newly won presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race...