You might remember from our Founders’ Day blog post that Father Nobili was the Italian Jesuit who founded Santa Clara College in 1851 and worked to make it a tenantable place that taught habits of moral control and mental stamina in line with Jesuit pedagogy of ratio studiorum. While Archives & Special Collections has a […]
Last week I gave my customary History of SCU presentation to this year’s crop of Orientation Leaders. One had an excellent question for me: how did we get the bronco as our mascot? According to Henry L. Walsh, writing of the time period October — November, 1923: Students of later days will be interested in […]
Imagine being a teenager entrusted with top-secret government intelligence and embarking on state-sponsored travels beyond your homeland. This was the reality for Henry Vane the younger (1613-1662), an aristocratic English sixteen-year-old who would eventually become a politician, a theologian, and the sixth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1] Held today at Santa Clara University’s Archives […]
