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Why Is it called the newman club?
The Middlebury Newman Club, like hundreds of other college Newman Clubs around the US, is named after Cardinal John Henry Newman (b.1801, England d.1890).
Cardinal Newman was an Anglican convert to Catholicism. Prior to his conversion, he stood out as a spiritual leader at Oxford University. One of distinguished writings, and perhaps most relevant for us is Idea of a University which describes Catholicism's place in a liberal arts education.
The inscription on his tombstone reads, Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem -- "Out of shadows and pictures into truth"
