Word: xavier
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...19th century Anglican resurgence known as the Oxford Movement, and David Livingstone, 19th century medical missionary who incidentally helped to open up the continent of Africa. Perhaps most surprising in the ecumenical list is the inclusion of two prominent figures from the Catholic Counter-Reformation: St. Francis Xavier, the great Jesuit missionary to India and Japan, and St. Francis de Sales-who on the proposed list is generously allowed to share a commemoration day with King Charles...
Sophocles and the Colts. It was a scholarly critique of "TIME style" Wills mailed to Bill Buckley from Xavier University in 1957 that started his occasional assignments as a book reviewer for National Review. Buckley was so impressed that he invited Wills to visit him. "I expected some ancient, crusty professor-and in walked this child. It took me several gulps to think of him as having written this very authoritative piece...
...NORMAN C. FRANCIS, 37, XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, New Orleans (1,362 students). Francis came to Catholic Xavier as a 17-year-old scholarship student and there he has remained, even working in a Xavier dorm while becoming the first Negro ever to earn a law degree at nearby Loyola. He served in a variety of administrative posts, organized the school's recent $10,000,000 expansion program...
Last June he became Xavier's president, a job that throughout the school's 43-year history had been held by white nuns who fully shared lay-Catholic Francis' own concern for improving educational opportunities for blacks. Francis' declared aim is "to steer students into the mainstream of American life," and he has very little patience for the radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math...
...GUARDS: John Skinners, Xavier, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 Ibs.; and Rufus Mayes, Ohio State, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. Few college guards are big enough to hold their own in the pros, and the pros usually fill the position with the fastest and most agile college tackles. In the case of Shinners, however, this need not be true. He is a stick-out at guard, with "great maneuverability, good lateral movement and the speed to pull out and lead sweeps. He's a winner-period." Mayes is a converted tight end with "excellent balance, quick feet...