Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994

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Opened only nine years after the Catholic academy in Boston was once destroyed by nativists, the College of the Holy Cross was once a pet project of Boston’s second bishop, Benedict Fenwick―a Jesuit college in the course of Yankee New England. To start with an isolated, exclusively Catholic operation offering a seven-year humanities program, the College failed to obtain a charter by the Massachusetts General Court until 1865. After 1900, Holy Cross became a four-year college in the American pattern and advanced to its present level by integrating important principles of Jesuit liberal arts education with the academic traditions of the strongest educational region in the nation.

Utilizing the universal Jesuit Plan of Studies, the college’s leaders To start with stressed connections with other Jesuit institutions in a program that emphasized classical languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and natural sciences. About 1900, a second era began when the curriculum was once altered to bring Holy Cross into conformity with the modern educational pattern: college offerings were amplified and the prep school was once dropped. All over the 1960s, a third era opened. It was once characterized by coeducation, a more open curriculum, growing involvement of non-Jesuit faculty and administrators, the transition to a board of lay trustees, and rising academic standards as Holy Cross took its place as the foremost Jesuit school among four-year liberal arts colleges.

Thy Honored Name highlights the confluence of two strong educational traditions―Puritan and Jesuit―and the growing appreciation of their compatibility. Additionally it is an account of efforts to promote academic excellence without losing an authentically Jesuit identity in a region where many formerly religious schools have grow to be secular. The book will hold interest for persons who study educational and religious history, for individuals interested in the development of New England and Worcester, and for friends of Holy Cross.

Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J., is professor of history and rector of the Jesuit Community at the College of the Holy Cross.

“Anthony Kuzniewski, SJ, professor of history in the College of Holy Cross, can tell a good story. Others have written histories of Holy Cross, but none has matched his literary skill and historical acumen. This is genuine history, not a celebratory essay. The creator’s thoroughness and attention to detail persuade one that no relevant document illuminating the college’s history has been overlooked. . . . This is a handsome, almost flawless volume, that scholars and others interested in American higher education are sure to welcome.”―Catholic Historical Review

“Kuzniewski has in the end crafted an ample, widely encompassing institutional biography that is balanced, fair and interesting. An in so doing, he reminds us that an academic institution can achieve excellence and relevance whilst it remains proud of its antique beginnings.”―Connection

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