Santa Clara University Library Archives & Special Collections is pleased to announce the completion of our newest digital collection, The Nobili Papers. The Nobili Papers digital collection consists of documents from Santa Clara’s first president, Fr. John Nobili, who served from the college’s founding in 1851 to his untimely death from tetanus in 1856. A […]
I wrote the following essay as a final research project for Dr. Andrew Keener‘s CTW 2 class in Winter 2019. I also created an online project about James Alexander Forbes, which you can access if you wish to learn more about James Alexander Forbes and traces of him in Santa Clara University Archives & Special […]
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 […]
On March 19th, 1851, Santa Clara University was founded. In celebration of this date, exactly 168 years later, the University has announced that their search for a new president has come to an end. The Board of Trustees has elected the Reverend Kevin O’Brien, S.J., to serve as Santa Clara’s 29thpresident. This announcement warrants a […]
