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T t ' HI xi t Other urtyajrsitfces h ve tftejr h can estftpyith aiyf conc(ii ' ;the ma- jor problems of our l ' aflt ' ifioving- world. Notre Dame has these same external challenges to meet and, in addition, a monumental internal problem. Simply stated: ' IKotre -Dame, a Catholic uni- versity, . ' has to resolve the tension be- tween what the two terms ' Catholic ' and ' university ' have come to mean. .
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A Stephen Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States, bought land and gave it to a bishop for a school, Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C. was sent from France to build on it. With seven religious helpers, an oxcart, and little more than five hundred dollars, Sorin travelled to the North- ern Indiana plot of land, finding a snow-covered wilderness. (Legend has it that the snow-white surroundings inspired Sorin to reflect on the puri- ty of the virgin land, calling it Notre Dame.) Within a few years, the work, sweat and tears of these pioneers had produced something concrete. Father Sorin ' s achievement was in creating in effect, out of nothing a tightly disciplined col- lege, modeled after French boarding schools. When Father Sorin died, his work and his school continued to exist. It remained the typical Catholic institution he had made it for over half a century: self -centered, unrecognized, ignorant of the world. Notre Dame, was more convent than college. Seventy-five years after Sorin had mastered the wilderness, another pioneer transformed the school into a football power. Notre Dame became famous with a stunning upset of high-powered Army in 1913. Star left end Knute Rockne be- came Notre Dame ' s most stirring coach and made Notre Dame football into a national institution with the best teams in the nation from 1918 to 1931. The orator and living symbol of Catholic vi- rility and Notre Dame greatness, Rockne brought the school into the big time and into the big money. Football became enhanced with the rich- ness of a cult. Catholic Notre Dame had entered into the stream of American higher learning with the least scholarly discipline of the nation ' s uni- versities. The result was what has been called, an exciting but non-intellectual blend of Thomism and the split-T. As football became prosperous, it became an im- portant element in the Notre Dame tradition ; nev- ertheless, the university continued to mirror the academic poverty of Catholic higher learning. The educational architects of Catholic America were gradually provoked at the abysmal mediocrity of the Catholic contribution to the nation ' s literary, political, and social leadership, but became artic- ulate only after the changeover toward aca- demic excellence had actually begun. Criticism of Catholic higher education blos- somed in the middle forties and reached full bloom in Msgr. John Tracy Ellis ' article in Thought in 1955. (Cont. next page) INTRODUCTION THE SNOW-COVERED WILDERNESS
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