“He became very controversial and I was sort of responsible for that. I was president of Phi Beta Kappa my senior year, it was probably 1959, maybe 1960, and we decided to do something for the campus and do some symposia, maybe influenced somewhat by the Platonic idea, but to have some debates on campus. So one of them was, it sounds ridiculous now, “What is Truth?” and we invited a number of different people to speak. One was a very distinguished Jesuit theologian, one was Prof. Gaudino and we had them in different fraternity houses to make [them] less rowdy party houses and more intellectual. And so this one was in my fraternity house, St. Anthony Hall, and we had a very good crowd there and quite a few members of the faculty. In those days there weren’t as many things on campus to do, so it was a good crowd…
Chapter 2: EARLY WILLIAMS YEARS
- 1. An Era When Students’ Dates Were Published in the Paper – And the Faculty Kept Score
- 2. The “Small Genius” Generates Disciples . . . And Skeptics
- 3. The Risk-Taker with Lollipops on His Tree
- 4. In the Basic Sense a Longer
- 5. Faculty Wives
- 6. The Gadfly Makes Enemies
- 7. Dark Moods – And a Moderating Fellowship
- 8. Publish Or . . .
- 9. The Bowling Team . . . And a Call Home