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...Though Oxford and Cambridge are twin peaks of English education, Americans are more aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...Eton, Sandhurst, and the Universities of Munich and Geneva. Spillane's alma mater: Fort Hays Kansas State College...
...Tutting the Pope. The magazine's brief life has been punctuated by thunderclaps of dissent. Recently, Buckley, who is a Roman Catholic, challenged the papal encyclical Mater et Magistra. This letter from Pope John XXIII to his bishops advocated a measure of "socialization," i.e., government planning and welfare programs, and urged bishops to accommodate to the trend. The Review promptly took the Vatican to task, describing the encyclical as "a venture in triviality...
...encyclical Mater et Magistra (TIME, July 21), Pope John XXIII came out for the kind of "socialization" that includes economic planning and state-run welfare programs. He expressed an "earnest wish" that Roman Catholic bishops give "more and more attention" to spreading this social doctrine. A new survey, published by the national Catholic weekly magazine Ave Maria suggests that some of the U.S. Catholic clergy were not listening very hard...
...Notre Dame's Holy Cross Fathers, found that most diocesan newspapers carried either the full text of the encyclical or substantial excerpts from it. But of the 53 dioceses responding to the survey, more than 70% left unanswered a question on what they were doing to place Mater et Magistra in their parochial-school curricula, and in 85% of the dioceses there were apparently no plans by bishops, priests or diocesan groups for promotion of the encyclical...