As a senior wrapping up her coursework a quarter early, I am bidding farewell to Santa Clara with nostalgia while I go about my work as a student research assistant in Archives & Special Collections. Thinking back fondly on the camaraderie I formed with my floormates in Swig freshman year–and my not so fond memories […]
You really never know what you’ll find in a library, as shown by what we stumbled upon in our own collection a couple weeks ago: One of my staff members stopped me today to show me this picture. Last week an ARS student found a mysterious packet inside a book along with unpleasant staining on […]
Call of the Wild: Jack London’s famous book that we all likely had to read in high school. What I didn’t realize in high school, however, was that the story started in Santa Clara Valley. As a student at SCU, this is much more interesting to me now. When I did a little research, I […]
I found God in myself and I loved her fiercely — Ntozake Shange The Catholic Women’s Network newspaper asserts the above quote literally on page 2 of issue 4, and the mantra of this quote imbibes the very being of the publication throughout its fifteen-plus year run. To dig into the complete backfile of the newspaper […]
Yearbooks: a snapshot into the past. I flipped through Santa Clara University’s yearbooks and was able to see that students’ weekend antics haven’t changed (beach trips to Santa Cruz or laying out on Bellomy) and discovered that Graham used to have a pool (what happened to that?). But when I squinted a little closer at […]
When I was looking to apply to Santa Clara University, my mom would always refer to it as “The University of Santa Clara” or “USC.” No matter how many times I insisted it was “SCU” or “Santa Clara University,” she always refuted that it used to be called USC. I didn’t realize until looking at […]
During the summer of 1893, 126 years ago, there was a 400th anniversary celebration of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World in 1492. This celebration took place in Chicago, and is known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, or the 1893 World’s Fair. The fair pulled people from all over the world to see massive […]
Dr. Kirstyn Leuner (English) delivered a version of this essay as a presentation at the 2019 British Women Writers Conference at Auburn University. The inspiration for this paper is a copy of the Moss sisters’ book Early Efforts (1839) recently purchased by SCU. Come visit this small, beautiful book during your next study break. The […]
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 […]
