Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara of being disinterested in "his university's famed football team in action" is to belie TIME'S boast of accuracy. True, Notre Dame's new president has seen only a very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit of self-sacrifice that characterizes the man. The real reason for his nonattendance has been that during football games the campus at Notre Dame is always quite barren of students and Father O'Hara has found this...
...bench in 1924, he practiced law in Honolulu, became president of the Hawaii Bar Association, something of an island civitarian. Neither the powerful Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association nor the local Democratic machine sponsored him for Governor. Coolidge-like in disposition, and having little in common with Franklin Roosevelt save religion (Episcopalian) and one personal habit (incessant cigaret smoking), "Judge" Poindexter won the President's approval because all groups admitted he was a good man, although not their...
Last fortnight Chancellor Bowman explained that he had dismissed Professor Turner because "I thought his position could be better filled by another man." Last week Pitt's Chancellor had changed his tune to: "Professor Turner was dismissed because of his sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion...
Father O'Hara did not want the job. Titular vice president and acting president of Notre Dame during President O'Donnell's year of illness, he had already announced that he would rather keep on being the university's prefect of religion. But the Roman Catholic authority which made the choice of a new president so smooth and peaceful rests on unhesitating obedience. Father O'Hara accepted his orders without protest...
...promote university exchanges. For seven years he was dean of Notre Dame's College of Commerce. But his real job since 1917 has been to be in a community of priests and confessors, the prime guide, philosopher and friend of all Notre Dame students-their prefect of religion. His students think he knows everything and their elders, marveling at his encyclopedic mind, are inclined to agree. Every evening he has spent long hours giving advice on religion, money, careers and love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given communion...