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...Harvard's official endorsement. Furthermore it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, others Senator Taft. Still others would bar anti-vivisectionists or opponents of birth control or World Federalists or Christian Scientists or Monsignor Sheen or Colonel McCormick. The answer is not suppression of "dangerous" ideas . . . but more vigorous statement of American ideas, and faith which would be well-founded in the ability of our students to distinguish between good and evil...
Patriotic Savagery. As the century advanced, the bloods took on a deeper sheen of respectability. Savagery was given a patriotic purpose, and the pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...
Since the war, philosophy has been No. 1 on the undergraduate hit parade (top lecturer: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen). But C.U.'s most famed department is speech & drama (TIME, July 7, 1947), whose professional-looking amateur theatricals have found a backstairs to Broadway for such productions as Lute Song, The Song of Bernadette and Sing Out, Sweet Land...
Sharpest observations on contemporary convert-making come, as might be expected, from the most famed proselytizer of all, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Modern converts, he writes, unlike those of past generations, have nothing to be converted from ("It is no longer Protestantism from which we convert souls; it is confusionism...
...Some Sheen maxims...