Education: To Be Continued

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In spite of having lost his "official standing" as chaplain for Princeton University's Roman Catholic students, dogmatic Dominican Hugh Halton (TIME, Oct. 7) made it clear that his war with the campus would go on. After appealing for funds for his Aquinas Foundation and for his "work, which has revealed a moral degradation at Princeton," Halton turned on one of the university's most distinguished names, Jacques Maritain. Three years ago, Halton revealed, he barred Maritain from speaking at the foundation—even though the French scholar is regarded by many as the foremost living Catholic philosopher. Huffed Halton: "Dr. Maritain does not have a very sound philosophical background ... I can think of no man whose teaching at Princeton has had less influence on the students than Maritain, and I'm not totally displeased."