There have been many changes in the mode of life, I would say. For instance, as scholastics we lived here in a regime of sacred silence. You know, you wore the habit all the time, and at table you would have reading most of the time. You would not be allowed to speak at table. So there were a number of changes like that in our mode of life. But how many individual changes there were, I would not be able to judge. Scholastics were given a great deal more liberty.

After Vatican II, it was a rather tumultuous time at Weston College among the Jesuit scholastics. It can be described as a revolution in expectations of what seminary life should be in the light of the Council. They felt strongly that a new mode was needed, and several important meetings were held on the question. One was held at the tertianship in Pomfret, Connecticut, the second at Weston itself over three days, and the third in Boston College, which brought together most of the New England Province. The result of all this was the Province's and Fr General's decision to move Weston College to Cambridge near Harvard. I continued to teach church history there for some years, though I lived out at old Weston.

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