Sacrifice and Survival: Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South

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Sacrifice and S u rv i va l Sacrifice and Survival Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South R. Eric Platt The univerSiTy of alabama PreSS Tuscaloosa copyright © 2014 The university of alabama Press Tuscaloosa, alabama 35487-0380 all rights reserved manufactured in the united States of america Typeface: Garamond and corbel cover photographs: Above, Jesuit faculty, St. charles college, 1875; courtesy of archives of the new orleans Province, Society of Jesus, loyola university monroe library. Below, early St. charles college, 1838; courtesy of archives of the new orleans Province, Society of Jesus, loyola university monroe library cover design: Todd lape/lape Designs ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of american national Standard for information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, anSi Z39.48-1984. library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data Platt, r. eric, 1981– Sacrifice and survival : identity, mission, and Jesuit higher education in the american South / r. eric Platt. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. iSbn 978-0-8173-1819-2 (trade cloth : alk. paper) — iSbn 978-0-8173-8742-6 (e book) 1. Jesuits—education (higher)—Southern States. 2. catholic universities and colleges—Southern States. i. Title. lc493.P53 2014 378’.0712—dc23 2013049869 For my grandparents—all of them. AMDG What we call the beginning is ofen the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. —T. S. Eliot ...