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Jose Leon Barandiaran, rector of the University of San Marcos, Lima, received a degree stating: "This, one of the new world's oldest universities, is great today not only because of its antiquity, but because of its distinguished record as a center of intellectual leadership down through the centuries since its beginning...
...behind the girls is Kent's rector and headmaster, the Rev. John 0. Patterson, a 51-year-old, Nevada-born Episcopal priest who began as an M.I.T.-trained architect, spent 15 years in Midwest parishes before coming to Kent in 1949. No monastic-he has a wife and four children-Father Patterson has a hard-headed reason for backing the girls' annex. In today's world, says he, "men have to work effectively with women. Women are people as much...
Said one Western scholar last week: "As pious Moslems, al-Azhar men don't drink, smoke or go out with loose women. And they are content with low pay." Says Rector Chaltout: "For ten centuries, al-Azhar has interpreted the Koran and taught its language. Now it will widen the Scope and knowledge of its graduates so that they may paint a true picture of Islam wherever they travel...
Late last year, Nasser appointed a new rector: Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, himself a product of al-Azhar and a top Koranic scholar, who has long preached the need for Islam's religious awakening. In weekly radio talks, he demanded reform, urged that Arab countries give women an education. "It is written that women used to argue with the Prophet," he explains. "God heard those arguments and approved them." Long an antiCommunist, Chaltout last month appealed to his vast radio audience "in the name of the religion of Allah, to give serious thought to the danger which threatens...
Into the World. Hoping to put al-Azhar on a par with modern universities, Chaltout stepped up a foreign-language program, made English a compulsory course, reorganized the library. Above all, Rector Chaltout accelerated al-Azhar's ancient work of propagating the faith. Under this program, the university...