Education: Best of Both Worlds

To U.S. Roman Catholics who find Catholic colleges too weak in scholarship and secular colleges too shy of religion, a lively campus in Canada beckons with a rare formula for the "best of both worlds." St. Michael's College, which has 1,260 Catholic students, 15% of them American, is run by the Basilian Fathers. Yet it is integrated with the tax-supported University of Toronto (17,000 students), a federation of five Oxford-style colleges. As a result, coed "St. Mike's" offers the intellectual stimulus and ample curriculum of a major secular university plus the religious spirit...