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University of Saint Thomas and Nobel Prize Winner Desmond Tutu

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Yesterday I spent an hour or two wandering around the campus of the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas.  It’s a pleasant, little campus in the museum district of Houston.  The architecture is boxy and very 1960s, but the campus was pretty active…plenty of kids walking about with purpose.
Little did I know that the [...]

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University of Dallas and the Classical Western Curriculum

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Today I visited the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. UD is a small Catholic college with a classical liberal arts curriculum. As one of the faculty members described it, UD offers a 21st Century Renaissance education. As such, UD is not a college that will appeal to everyone. But it [...]

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