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Francisco Suarez in Coimbra (1597-1617) In May 1596, when he expected to be at the end of his teaching career, Francisco Suárez (Granada, 1548 – Lisbon, 1617) received notice of a couple of letters from Philip II to father Garcia de Alarcón, Visitor of the Colleges of the Society of Jesus in Spain, in which the King ordered him to take charge of the Chair of Prima at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Coimbra, which was vacant (Scoraille, 1912, 335-338). Suárez, who had taught at the colleges of Avila, Segovia, Valladolid, at the Collegium Romano in Rome and at the colleges of Alcalá de Henares and Salamanca (where he was teaching since 1593), disliked the idea. He traveled to Toledo and managed to persuade the monarch to give up his resolution. However, a new letter from Philip II, of February 10th 1597, insisted on sending Suárez to Coimbra, where the University thought of him as the right man for the job. This time Suárez couldn't refuse (Scoraille, 1912, 339-342). He was in Coimbra on May 1597, where on the 8th he took possession of his new chair (Scoraille, 1912, XX). In the beginning of June he traveled to Évora to act as sponsor in the doctorate of fellow Jesuit Gonçalo Luis (Cabral, 2010). This became the official recognition of Suárez's own doctorate degree that had been given to him just before, under a 1553 brief by Julius III which allowed the Jesuit General to attribute doctorates to the worthiest Society members (Cabral, 2010). Still in 1597 he managed to print his famous book Metaphysicarvm dispvtationvm in Salamanca (Suárez, 1597), where he returned to in the summer, only to be back in Coimbra the following October (Scoraille, 1912, XX). From then on, residing at the College of Jesus, he would print his additional main works in the Portuguese university city, being aided in his Theology chair by fellow Jesuit Cristóvão Gil (Cabral, 2010). He published Opus de virtute et statu religionis (Suarez, 1608-1609), Tractatus de legibus ac Deo legislatore (Suarez, 1612) and Defensio fidei ...

These interviews were part of the class's semester long work related to managing our use of information systems to counter disinformation/misinformation, constructing dialogues with those whose identities and beliefs differ, and preparing ourselves to advocate for those who are marginalized and/or oppressed. In this project students interviewed people who were consistently acting as human rights advocates in some capacity to better understand their ethical motivations for doing so, the barriers they encountered, and the effects of their work on their local community. We are grateful to those who allowed us to share their conversations in an effort to help all of us understand our capacity to be human rights advocates ourselves.

Free college, or Promise programsa model of student aid that covers at least full tuition costs for a subset of a given states residentshave received a significant boost in the past few years. A central question has been whether the model benefits from more consistent political support over time as compared to other forms of financial aid or other higher education spending. This report aims to reflect about how promise programs have fared in retaining political support over time, and what we can learn from past experience. ; The Century Foundation

Announcement that General A.C. Wedemeyer will speak at the 1960 Pepperdine College Freedom Forum. (The Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles, California.) ; x1960

This work examines the origin, evolution, and practice of the Electoral College. Relevant theories of representation are applied to the body in order to help readers understand how well the institution conforms to expectations regarding representation. Much confusion exists regarding the Electoral College. Whether one is discussing the 'original Electoral College' or the 'evolved Electoral College' has much to do with this confusion. This study pays particular attention to the role of the Electoral College in the 2016 election and provides the most exhaustive analysis of presidential electors to date. It finds a sizable audience of Republican electors considered not voting for Donald Trump when they met in December of 2016.