Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University

by Kathleen A. Mahoney

Winner of the 2005 New Scholar Book Award given by Division F: History and Historiography of the American Educational Research Association

In 1893 Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, the father of the modern university, helped implement a policy that, in effect, barred graduates of Jesuit colleges from regular admission to Harvard Law School. The resulting controversy--bitterly contentious and widely publicized--was a defining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801873401
• ISBN13: 9780801873409
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher