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...religion, a lively campus in Canada beckons with a rare formula for the "best of both worlds." St. Michael's College, which has 1,260 Catholic students, 15% of them American, is run by the Basilian Fathers. Yet it is integrated with the tax-supported University of Toronto (17,000 students), a federation of five Oxford-style colleges. As a result, coed "St. Mike's" offers the intellectual stimulus and ample curriculum of a major secular university plus the religious spirit of a Catholic college...
What forged this friendly setup was a 19th century custody battle over the infant University of Toronto, which both secular and religious educators wanted to run. As a compromise, the Ontario legislature put in a nonsectarian administration to control degrees and the teaching of "university" subjects, mostly science. Sectarian colleges were then invited to join and teach "college" subjects, mostly humanities. St. Michael's in 1887 became the first to join...
...third of the faculty) swing their weight. "Lay faculty have more to say here than at any other Catholic institution I know about," says one American professor, who deserted Notre Dame for St. Mike's. In philosophy, its strong point, St. Mike's outshines all other Toronto colleges with 22 courses, almost all taught by laymen. "We approach philosophy from the scholarly, not the apologetic point of view," says Professor Lawrence Lynch, head of the department. "We have a course called Contemporary Systematic Philosophy that doesn't even touch on a Catholic philosopher." Similarly, a compulsory "religious...
Broadening Vistas. Aiding such breadth is St. Mike's proudest claim to intellectual distinction: its Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, launched by French Medievalist Etienne Gilson, who now commutes between Paris and Toronto. Generally recognized as tops of its kind in North America, the institute has produced at least 100 graduates now adding scholarly luster to U.S. Catholic philosophy departments. In addition, the university itself has set up new institutes-Slavic, Islamic, East Asian-sharply broadening St. Mike's vistas...
...Toronto's other sectarian arts colleges are the Anglican Church's Trinity and the United Church of Canada's Victoria; the nonsectarian members of the federation are University College and professional students' New College...