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Boston College
Anti-Catholic Protestants kept Boston College's founder from building on the property he first purchased in Boston. The College's first president had been tarred and feathered by Know Nothing Protestants in Maine before facing the rigors of college administration. The College held its first classes as the Civil War raged. Despite these unpromising circumstances at its beginning, Boston College prospered in the latter decades of the 19th century and moved to more spacious and architecturally impressive quarters in Chestnut Hill, adjacent to Boston, early in the 20th century.
The Donovan, Dunigan, Fitzgerald volume presents a swift-moving account of the evolution of a tiny Jesuit college into the vibrant university it is today, having moved from at first modest initiatives in graduate education to its present status as a research center with five respected professional schools. The book is generously illustrated.
xxi, 584 pp., ISBN 0-9625934-0-0, $35.00 (cloth).
In this volume Boston College's university historian explores highways and byways of the College's history. One chapter has the provocative title 'Nineteenth Century Boston College: Irish or American?' Another contains lively reminiscences of men who attended Boston College in the 1890's, recorded fifty years after their graduation but first published here. A chapter on 'Joseph Coolidge Shaw: First Patron of Boston College' tells the story of a young Harvard graduate, scion of a wealthy Boston family who, converted to Catholicism and ordained a priest, entered the Society of Jesus and as a novice, stricken with a fatal illness, on his deathbed willed his patrimony and his considerable library gathered in travels through Europe "to the college to be established by the Society of Jesus in Boston." Father Shaw's will was dictated twelve years before Boston College was founded in 1863..
viii, 274 pp., ISBN 0-962593-1-9, $12.95 (paper).
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