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Cardinal Newman on University Life: Athens

Ch. 4. University Life: Athens Now Newman turns to provide a portrait of university life at Athens. It is a more realistic description of city and the students who went there to study. Athens attracted...

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Athens, the first University, Card. Newman continued

Today one cannot conceive of a university without many libraries filled with books and data bases. But what is essential in a university? What is at the very heart of university education? Newman...

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Faith’s Power of Persuation

Excerpt from Take Five: Meditations with John Henry Newman, page 66: 17. Faith’s Power of Persuasion Newman articulated the idea that man knows spiritual realities by multiple impressions and...

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Starting a University, Card. Newman

Any group that begins a university today is met not only with the difficulty of the actual organizational task; it is met with incredulity and pessimistic remarks on the part of many. Newman and the...

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Good professors make a University, Card. Newman

Universities need tranquility and freedom to thrive just as the Church needs these conditions to teach its doctrine and form its children without prohibitions. Newman told the Irishmen for whom he...

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Filling University Chairs, Cardinal Newman

After noting that good professors make a university, Newman addressed the question of whether professors from other countries would be welcomed to the University in Ireland. Newman tells of a...

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University professors as Tutors, Card. Newman

In his first articles for the University Gazette of the Catholic University of Ireland Newman had indicated the primary role played by university professors. Newman’s friend objected: “I cannot help...

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Are great professors enough? Card. Newman

The concept of a university starting at Athens developed through time. Experience has shown  that a university requires more than genius on the part of professors. After asserting that outstanding...

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Athens according to Pericles ~ Card. Newman

Athens provided the intellectual genius for universities, and Roman West the practical character.  Christianity gave solidity to both these elements accomplishing the beautiful ideal of Athens as put...

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From Athens to Alexandria, Card. Newman

Newman compares influence and system, qualities recognized in Athens and Rome, with two types of institutions in the Catholic Church, namely the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and religious orders. He...

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