Author: Thomas Gaffney TaaffePublisher: New York, The Catholic publication society Company
ISBN:
Category : Fordham (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A History of St. John's College, Fordham, N.Y.
Author: Thomas Gaffney TaaffePublisher: New York, The Catholic publication society Company
ISBN:
Category : Fordham (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Fordham
Author: Thomas J. ShelleyPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823271528
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
“A detailed institutional history that charts both triumphs and setbacks.” —Catholic Herald Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan commuter college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university with an enrollment of more than 15,000 students from sixty-five countries. This is honest history that gives due credit to Fordham for its many academic achievements, but also recognizes that Fordham shared the shortcomings of many Catholic colleges in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Covering struggles over curriculum and the change of ownership in recent decades from the Society of Jesus to a predominantly lay board of trustees, this book addresses the intensifying challenges of offering a first-rate education while maintaining Fordham’s Catholic and Jesuit identity. Exploring more than a century and a half of Fordham’s past, this comprehensive history of a beloved and renowned New York City institution of higher learning also contributes to our debates about the future of education.
A History of St. John's College, Fordham, N.Y.
Author: Thomas Gaffney TaaffePublisher: New York, The Catholic publication society Company
ISBN:
Category : Fordham (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A History Of St. John's College, Fordham, N.y
Author: Thomas Gaffney TaaffePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021568212
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a stroll through the halls of St. John's College with this engrossing history of the prestigious New York City institution. From its founding in the mid-nineteenth century to its present-day academic and cultural offerings, Thomas Gaffney Taaffe traces the fascinating evolution of this beloved college. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York
Author: Thomas J. ShelleyPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823271536
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education that took place in the United States in the twentieth century. This was reflected at Fordham in its transformation from a local commuter college to a predominantly residential institution that now attracts students from 48 states and 65 foreign countries to its three undergraduate schools and seven graduate and professional schools with an enrollment of more than 15,000 students. This is honest history that gives due credit to Fordham for its many academic achievements, but it also recognizes that Fordham shared the shortcomings of many Catholic colleges in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There was an ongoing struggle between Jesuit faculty who wished to adhere closely to the traditional Jesuit ratio studiorum and those who recognized the need for Fordham to modernize its curriculum to meet the demands of the regional accrediting agencies. In recent decades, like virtually all American Catholic universities and colleges, the ownership of Fordham has been transferred from the Society of Jesus to a predominantly lay board of trustees. At the same time, the sharp decline in the number of Jesuit administrators and faculty has intensified the challenge of offering a first-rate education while maintaining Fordham’s Catholic and Jesuit identity. June 2016 is the 175th anniversary of the founding of Fordham University, and this comprehensive history of a beloved and renowned New York City institution of higher learning will help contribute to celebrating this momentous occasion.
Dagger John
Author: John LougheryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John’s College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions in a time of nativist bigotry and church burnings and worked tirelessly to help Irish Catholic immigrants find acceptance in their new homeland. His galvanizing and protecting work and pugnacious style earned him the epithet Dagger John. When the interests of his church and ethnic community were at stake, Hughes acted with purpose and clarity. In Dagger John, Loughery reveals Hughes’s life as it unfolded amid turbulent times for the religious and ethnic minority he represented. Hughes the public figure comes to the fore, illuminated by Loughery’s retelling of his interactions with, and responses to, every major figure of his era, including his critics (Walt Whitman, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley) and his admirers (Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln). Loughery peels back the layers of the public life of this complicated man, showing how he reveled in the controversies he provoked and believed he had lived to see many of his goals achieved until his dreams came crashing down during the Draft Riots of 1863 when violence set Manhattan ablaze. To know "Dagger" John Hughes is to understand the United States during a painful period of growth as the nation headed toward civil war. Dagger John’s successes and failures, his public relationships and private trials, and his legacy in the Irish Catholic community and beyond provide context and layers of detail for the larger history of a modern culture unfolding in his wake.
A History of St. John's College
Author: Thomas G. TaaffePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337399757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A History of St. John's College - Fordham, N.Y is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
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