| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University. By Kathleen A. Mahoney. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii, 347 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-8018-7340-1.)
In 1893 the Harvard Law School voted to restrain its growth by limiting regular admission to graduates of a select list of 69 colleges. No Catholic colleges were included on the original list. Protests by the Jesuits elicited explanations by President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University that were invariably deprecating toward Catholic higher education. Nevertheless, 3 Jesuit colleges (out of 44) were included on the published list—Georgetown University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Boston College—but soon afterward the latter 2 were dropped. This controversy dragged on through the rest of the decade, repeatedly publicizing the inferiority of Jesuit colleges.	1
Kathleen A. Mahoney utilizes the conflict between Harvard and the Jesuits to penetrate the insular world of Jesuit colleges and illuminate a far larger crisis of Catholic higher education. Indeed, this incident may literally have been the first major confrontation of Catholic education with the mainstream of American higher education, then in the throes of the academic revolution. As educational credentials became more important for social and economic advancement, the curricular and extracurricular offerings of Catholic colleges were scrutinized and judged against those of the emerging American universities. Jesuit insularity could no longer be maintained, not that the Jesuits failed to try.	. . .

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