When a lay university's president dies or resigns all the world knows that months of excursions and excitements, requests and refusals, acrimony and argument will probably elapse before a new president is chosen. Last month died Rev. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of the University of Notre Dame since 1928. Last week in Notre Dame Rev. James Aloysius Burns, U. S. Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, arose at evening prayer to announce that he and four colleagues had that day chosen Rev. John Francis O'Hara, 46, to be Notre Dame's...
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