The First Century of Jesuit Higher Education in America
- The First Century of Jesuit Higher Education in America
Footnotes
1. Robert Emmett Curran, The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University. Volume 1, From Academy to University, 1789-1899 (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993); Raymond A. Schroth, Fordham: A History and Memoir (Chicago: Jesuit Way, 2002); Charles F. Donovan, David R. Dunigan, and Paul A. FitzGerald, A History of Boston College from the Beginnings to 1990 (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: University Press of Boston College, 1990); Anthony Kuzniewski, Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999); David R. Contosta, Saint Joseph's: Philadelphia's Jesuit University (Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2000); Nicholas Varga, Baltimore's Loyola, Loyola's Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Historical Society, 1990); Dennis A. Mihelich, The History of Creighton University, 1878-2003 (Creighton, Nebr.: Creighton University Press, 2005).
2. William P. Leahy, Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1991); Kathleen A. Mahoney, Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); Philip Gleason, Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). Peter McDonough, Men Astutely Trained: A History of the Jesuits in the American Century (New York: Free Press, 1992), and Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi, Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002)
3. Gerald McKevitt, "Jesuit Higher Education in the United States," Mid-America: An Historical Review 73 (October 1991): 209-26. Fr. McKevitt is also the author of an excellent institutional biography, The University of Santa Clara: A History, 1851-1977 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1979).
4. Unless otherwise indicated, all the information in this and the next three paragraphs is from "Report on the Attendance at Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States," Catholic Educational Association Bulletin 12 (August 1916): 5-19.
5. See John B. McGloin, Jesuits by the Golden Gate: The Society of Jesus in San Francisco, 1848-1969 (San Francisco: University of San Francisco Press, 1972), 102, 106-07.
6. See C. Joseph Nuesse, The Catholic University of America: A Centennial History (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1989).
7. William J. McGucken, The Jesuits and Education (Milwaukee, Wisc.: Bruce, 1932), is most helpful in tracing these development; it will not, however, be cited for every case where it is relevant.
8. R. E. Curran, Georgetown University, is the most recent and authoritative study, but John M. Daley, Georgetown University: Origin and Early Years (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1957), and Joseph T. Durkin, Georgetown University: The Middle Years (1840-1900) (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1963), are still useful.
9. See Francis X. Curran, "The Jesuit Colony in New York, 1808-1817," Historical Records and Studies 42 (1954): 51-97; reprinted in F. X. Curran, The Return of the Jesuits: Chapters in the History of the Society of Jesus in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1966), 10-56.
10. Daley, Georgetown, 194-98; Durkin, Georgetown, 193-94. R. E. Curran, Georgetown, 129, notes that the place was called Washington College when reopened, becoming Gonzaga when chartered by Congress in 1857. College degrees were occasionally granted at Gonzaga, but it definitely played second fiddle to Georgetown. Its centennial history of 1921 speaks of the relationship between the two schools in these words: "With less of fame and of humbler grade than her elder sister who sits in queenly splendor on the heights of Georgetown. . . ." Gonzaga College, An Historical Sketch, from its Foundation in 1821 to the Solemn Celebration of its first Centenary (Washington, 1921), 157. However, the announcement of the school's centennial spoke of it as the second oldest Jesuit college in the country (Ibid., 314). For the granting of degrees, see Ibid., 86, 95, 186.
11. For the most recent histories of these schools, see the works cited above, note 1.
12. See William B. Faherty, Better the Dream: Saint Louis University and Community, 1818-1968 (St. Louis: St. Louis University...
