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~eorge HiggiN; Director NCWC Social Action DepL
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During the past two o~ three years, as the readeris well aware, there has been a great deal of discussion, not only in 'cloistered academic circles but also in the prints, as to whether or not we American Catholics are pulling our weight in the field of scholarship Catholic scholars and a dispro and higher learning. ?ortionate degr~e of Catholic 'Th ere are th ose among us mfluence. The field of industrial rela who regret and others who tions is .not the most important
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Miss Jean 'Ng, a senior at. the Academy of the Sacred Hearts, , Fall River, has been awarded 'a Spelling Proficiency Certifi-
apparently resent this continuing field of, scholarship at the pres discussion. Indeed there are ent time, but surely it is one of some who seem tremendous concern to the . to regard it al Church and one in which Cath most as an act olies, of all people, and Catholic of treason to institutions of higher learning '. the Catholic ought to be preeminent. I take cause. it there is no need to argue this T h e·r e are point with anyone who is even rna'ny others, 'superficially acquainted, with however - in the social encyclicals ,of recent eluding' t his· popes. writer - who think that this discussion has MISS JEAN NG served a very useful purpose cate by, the local chapter of and that those who initially pro CINCINNATI (NG) ' - A na NOMA-National Office Man yoked it are deserving of our tionally renowned school super agement" Association. gratitude and commendation. intendent called here: for "more Jean ·receh'ed a perfect score In the later connection, I am study and less social life" 'in on three consecutive spelling thinking specifically of me.n high schools. tests based on the most difficult like Monsignor Jo4n Tracy ElllS In . addition" Msgr. Carl J. business vocabulal'y.· As a win of the Catholic University. of. _ Ryan said, admission to colleges ner, she is entitled to participate America and Father. Gustav should be "by examination only," in a special discussion at a ban~ Weigel, S,J., of WoodstockCo~ instead of on the basis of high . quet to be held' next Wednes lege, both of whom are a Credlt school credits. . day at Stevenson's. to the American Catholic com , 'The Cincinnati archdiocesan Jean is the daughter of Mr. munity. . school head, who is. ~lso presi and Mrs. Frank Yan Ng, of 357 Usef~l as this continuing dis : dent of the National Catholic South Main Street, Fall River, eussion has been, however, it Educational' Association's.. de, Mass. could . c onceivably get out ~f • partment of sc~ool s~IM;rmteIJ hand as times goes on and .de ,.den~, ~~de hlS statements m : generate into a sterile 'and dis- • an· mtervlew. " .; ' . : 'H:' D edifying family squabble. This ~s "H~. ~xpressed the .bo~ ,~~~., Dot likely -to happen, tho,ugh,.if :.the cllffiate of pl;lbhc oplmo~ . PAXTON (NC) French ali parties concerned ·s~r~pl;l- . wOllld';,~hange sothat..pa~e~ts scholar and author Dr. Regine lously'stick to the facts. 'Where .~f?uld ~emand better ed,~catlOn Pernoud will receive the honor the"':facts are not, available, it ,at the hIg~ school level. ary degree of doctor of humane behooves us to ferret tIiem out. .Tlme of Study . letters from Anna Maria College . .' , ." . What IS needed today, he sald, . here' on Feb.' 23. It will be the Meanwhile. there 15. at least.. is the ·"realization that high first public conferring of ari one 'field· ,of.. sc~olarshlP. - the school is basically a time of ·.honorary degree by, the college. field of in?ustn~l relatlons re study and not merely' of social She is chief archivist of the search - m WhICh we already 'life." He said social pressure Museum' of French History, a have enoug~facts ~o warrant has become so great 'in a number section' of the French National the rather dlSCO~ragmg conclu,. of high'· schools throughout the" Archiv'es.. She has been lectur- . nation that many students have ' ing at Anna Maria and Assump • ion that,Cathohcs are not ade quately represented. T~at's to .take :jobs to earn sp.ending . tion Colleges since last fall. Dr. putting it as mildly as possIble.. money. '. ~ Pernoud has published nine his Evidence in Boo~"
; & fo~ "examination only" en torical books. The'latest is "The "''',,;. ::. . ",. 1
trance Into college, Msgr. Ryan Retrial of Joan 'of Arc."', ' .rlJ;~ eyid~nce f?r thls··conc u~ said that under the presE;nt sys 1110n,,:1S aVaIlable m a new bo? tem based on high school cre "entit1~d, "A Decade of Industna~. liits, "it is possible to get into Relatlons .Research, 1~46-1956. ,college with good grades in May you walk An Appraisal of the LIterature mediocre courses," worthjly' of in the Field" (Harpe~and BFoth~ . ."Entrance examinations," he God 'and , " ers, New York). The:'fitst' in:,;a::':!t'd~'iared, c'wb{jid make li1lot"of',"plelise Him;" series of two volumes sp.ons<;,red ,high school boys and girls with .~ ,;: I . ',"'i;:Col. ;.1:1.0 by the Industrial RelatiOlJ,s Re,,,;,;"}'taleni feally work:" ::A:tlthesame, search Association, this ex- time the' examinations~'would' tremely useful. surv~y,F9vel;"~~~llt"i';Il:~P." out" of ,colleges ,a~:,lot :·of. _.i ':",:' '/' major works pubhshed durmg people who simply cannot do ' the past decade in six different college work," . areas of research in the broad and constantly expanding field of industrial relations. WASHINGTON (NC)' A Of the thr'ee or four hundred.. _Llberian;believ~d to be the fiI:st.' books, monographs, and' schol student from his country to.pur arly articles which are listed sue 'his theological studies in therein and briefly' appraised by the D. S., has arrived at Queen a panel of experts, only a tiny ,of, Apostles ,Seminary' here. , handful were written by ',Cath-, 'He is 'E'rritrianuel Wolor Topor 915" Acushnet Ave. olic scholars or under the aus of Grand Cess, Liberia, who will pices of Catholic institutions ,of , ,reside"' at the "seminary, which ,At Yield· Square higher learning. is maintained by the Society New Bedford Even allowing for a reason of African Missions. able percentage of oversights or Mr.' Topor -is scheduled' to New Bedford's Leading
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omissions on the part of the ex take courses at the' nearby perts who drew up this' com Cath(llic University of America, posite list, we are still faced in addition to his regular theo with the inescapable cOl1clusion logical studies. . that Catholic scholars and Cath olic institutions of higher learn ing, far from being adequate.1y represented, are .hardly even' in the running in the field of in dustrial relations research. , PLUMBING & HEATING
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St. Lawrence Church, New Catholic Information Center in Bedford, announces ·the opening Boston, the Rev. James E. Dixon, C.S.P., and the Rev. ,Richard D. ., ofa series of ,'!pulpit dialogues" . beginning oil. Sunday evening Payne, C.S.P.; will conduct the March: 23. An invitation is discussio.~s, qne, wil~ advance the current objections and po.pu exte'nded to all, regardless of lar difficulties while the other denomination, who are inter will defend the Catholic teach ested in religious truth. ing on the subject treated. A The pulpit dialogue presenta tion affords a new approach to - lively and instructive develop the religious question.: Two of ment is assured. The subjects the Paulist Fathers from the covered will be the basic teach ings of the Catholic Church, especially in their relation to present day. affairs. The instru'ctio'ns will take Rev. Owen McGrath, S.S.C., place each evening from. Sunday rector of St. Columban Seminary, to' Friday indusive at 7:30·P. M. An invitation to attend is Milton, will be guest speaker extended to' all. Catholics are at the Communion breakfast of '·Thomas McDonough Council 330, urged to attend for their own , KnightS' of..Columbus of North enlightenment and' to invite , Attleboro,' to be held Palm their non-Catholic friends and -Sunday, Match 30, at the Rome 'relatives to accompany them to , Restaurant ·following. the 7 these interesting instructions. o'clock Mass in St. Mary's . Church. DistrictiJeputy John Tucker - ASUNCION,' Paraguay (NC) , will be guest of the council. -Police broke up a public dem James P. McNamara, Catholic onstration here during -which a Activities chairm'an, announces priest was expressing criticism that members are to assemble in of military leaders of Paraguay K of C hall be! ')re Mass and for an extravagant and luxuri march in a body t.o the church. ous way of life.
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