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| | Walter J. Ongl | Saint Louis University |
 | | Walter J. Ong, SJ, was University Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University, where, prior to this appointment in 1984, he was William E. Haren Professor of English and Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry (in the School of Medicine). |
 | | Professor Ong was a Fellow at the Wesleyan University (Connecticut) Center for the Study of the Liberal Arts, Professions, and Sciences, 196 1-62, together with Hannah Arendt, the author Sir Charles Percy Snow and his wife, Lady Pamela Johnson Snow, the prolific novelist Paul Horgan, Brand Blanchard, and others. |
 | | Ong has often stated that he knows no one who has an in-depth knowledge of any period in the past in any culture, a knowledge including all persons of all classes in the culture, who would prefer the earlier period to the present. |
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