THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week "THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE" T HREE THINGS, at least, seem quite clear, as a...
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Packaged Wisdom Even more disturbing than the confusion in the general education movement is its subtle anti-intellectualism by RICHARD J. T H E PREVAILING fashion in our liberal arts colleges...
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both administrators and chairmen have succumbed, for it seems to be a cardinal principle never to turn down a grant. But as this involvement in programs increases, a greater proportion of faculty...
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free to combat it." And following the Revolution, even the conservative Alexander Hamilton opposed the expurgatory oath which was designed to weed out the Tories in New York. Hamilton said that...
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TOO LITTLE, TOO LONG Reading in Our Colleges by DONALD W. MILLER T HE FIRST round of the great debate over Catholic colleges is ended, and all the principal speakers have paused for breath....
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suggesting books for him to read, providing background information, pointing out relationships, and helping him solve problems he encounters in reading. If the student reads widely, he will find...
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THE SMALL CATHOLIC COLLEGE A Question of Survival by BRENDAN DOWNEY A FEW weeks ago college administrators flocked to Boston to discuss the question: "Will the colleges of liberal arts and...
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THE SCREEN TAKING APARTHEID APART A S TIMELY as anything on our screens today is "Come Back, Africa," a fictional-documentary film made in the Union of South Africa by Lionel Rogosin, the...
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COMMUNICATIONS "THE CLASSICS IN AMERICA" Cleveland, Ohio T O THE EDITORS: I looked in vain in Horace GregoDj's perceptive article "The Classics in America" (April 1) for a word about Edith...
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2 DISTINGUISHED NEW TEXTS FOR COLLEGE ENGLISH by P. ALBERT DUHAMEL Boston College A unique survey of Catholic viewpoints on many different issues from colonial days to the present, these most...
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