The Campus Blooms Again
September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 461 is pertinence enough in it to show that the Church, THE CAMPUS BLOOMS...
...the newer what is being said and written...
...Incidentally, a forum is afforded Those who believe in it rapturously might well learn for all those, whether inside the college or out of it, from Saint Benedict the true meaning of "peace...
...and "How can education succeed in developing the utter absence of any mention of humility...
...and today we are in a better position slavery, but it certainly ought to be servitude in the to answer them than the people of generations ago sense exemplified by the Master of all affection when were...
...It may stop him from doing his best and that the future will be that wedded life would be considerably more pleas- surely adjudge the result...
...The climax of the thing, however, is the suggestions for reform, so varied an array of theories, constantly enforced wonder if madame and her hus- that it is quite impossible for anybody excepting a band are together at all...
...The one's own life...
...who have ideas on this very engrossing subject...
...At the present time, there are so many together...
...The round a few major problems which their experience conclusion should have been, "they lived together tells them are important...
...These are charming subjects in development of Catholic higher education in the themselves, but they are hardly indentical with mar- United States is therefore potentially unlimited...
...Certain principles, ones assert that they do not...
...Obviously, it is toward afterward...
...part The Commonweal, continuing its interest in the To see that matrimony is the subtlest illustration of work of the college, hopes to print in the near future universal law is to discern that it can never be alto- a number of articles by prominent authorities on topics gether a matter of individual whim...
...and consequences of the other, because the emphasis was the attitude of college men themselves has centered placed on the wrong adjective to begin with...
...It reposes less on the viola- tution, others will express the views of experienced tion of a rule than upon the utter absence of a rule...
...sented by the specialist, that the attention of the imWithout venturing into speculative aspects of the mediate educational future will be directed...
...The whole enterprise is surrounded nowadays Criticism, it is true, has said a good many unwith a ridiculous suspicion...
...may seem to imply should imagine that everybody with any experience returning to the heated theoretical debates of the early of matrimony would realize the essential necessity for middle-ages...
...September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 461 is pertinence enough in it to show that the Church, THE CAMPUS BLOOMS AGAIN or any other institution which takes a steady look at human nature, cannot avoid the sensible conclusion OBODY is sure how many new steps will tramp that when a man and woman settle down together by away on the old collegiate paths this fall...
...But the fireside they must vow to continue in that way there is no falling off from former numerical glories, for some time...
...The steady increase of divorce-and and possibly now and then a definite increase will also the steady increase of talk about divorce-is a gladden the hearts of registrars...
...But for him, as for everyant, even for religious people, if those who engage body, the problem of method is vast and perplexing...
...We that nature to best advantage...
...For marriage is a form, while happiness these, and not toward the complexity of practice preis only a quality...
...Here is an institution which is also a sacra- religious teacher may rightly be alarmed at certain ment because it is the clearest reflection of the deepest forms of essential doctrine expounded elsewhere, but universal mystery...
...Those who succeed in it are such he has at least the joy of realizing that nobody will as contemplate this mystery, not themselves...
...For its ful-but also in the first principles of the enterprise...
...matter, one may say that the most striking thing about To ask questions like, "What is the nature of all contemporary writing in favor of easy divorce is man...
...Perhaps no where else in modern life is the the facade, too, there is a genuine interest in improveerror of that romanticism which believed mankind ment-in making the "system" more serviceable, could keep on playing soft music without ever strik- more alert, more closely identified with intellectual reing a wrong note so abundantly illustrated as in family sponsibilities...
...Behind open...
...Though some of these papers all, is not so much a confession of failure as the demon- will consider education broadly as an American instistration of a mistake...
...Love is not tant questions...
...life...
...A riage...
...Older novels used to as- specialist in the matter to read and weigh much of sume that "they lived happily afterward...
...upon it were properly trained, not only in housewifery It is drawing his attention, just as the major difficuland courteousness-though both are eminently help- ties of education are of concern to everyone...
...All in all, the pubtremendous demonstration of the fallacy involved in lic addiction to educational influences seems about as believing that the marriage door ought to be left permanent as any aspect of our democracy...
...Divorce, after of the first importance...
...But they are, after all, the most impora resolve to sit in the second best chair...
...And We do not agree on the responses, but those yet the whole plea for divorce is a series of variations who hold one view are as free to act upon their conon the theme of "happiness" and the "right to live victions as are those who hold an opposing view...
...religious teachers...
...He lowered Himself beneath the souls He saved...
...The one are the logical however, have been rather generally agreed upon...
...People are forever won- wise and irritating things, but it has shocked a condering if madame and her husband are happy together siderable number of temperamentally sleepy people -wondering, indeed, if they could possibly be happy into action...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 20
