"Before addressing the scandals that hit the Vatican, he first needs to learn what happened, " said Francesco Cesareo, a church historian and president of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

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Employers happily took advantage of the assumption that female college graduates would work for only a few years before retiring to domesticity.

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Assuming that these new books are right (not a fully warranted assumption), and that many students are increasingly disengaged from the academic part of the college experience, it may be because the system has become too big and too heterogeneous to work equally well for all who are in it.

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