JESUIT RHETORIC AT HOLY CROSS COLLEGE, CIRCA 1957–1958

• Published in: Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies p. 252
• Main Author: S. Michael Halloran
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Fordham University Press 25.03.2016
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Aristotelian rhetoric; Behavioral sciences; Ceremonial objects; Ceremonies; Christian philosophy; Christianity; Church groups; Classical rhetoric; Communications; Crosses; Cultural anthropology; Cultural customs; Curricula; Devotional objects; Ecclesiology; Education; Educational resources; Formal education; Formal speech; Instructional materials; Memoranda; Oratory; Pedagogy; Political communication; Political rhetoric; Political science; Political sociology; Religion; Religious organizations; Rhetoric; Rituals; Schools of rhetoric; Social sciences; Society of Jesus; Speech; Spiritual belief systems; Spoken communication; Textbooks; Written communication
• ISBN: 0823264521; 9780823264520

In Thy Honored Name,his history of Holy Cross College, Anthony Kuznewski, S. J., identifies 1960 as the year when the school bottomed out in an organizational and curricular rut. Coincidentally, 1960 was the year in which I graduated from Holy Cross. Organizationally, Holy Cross was slow in coming to terms with the changes effected by the return of the World War II veterans. With a student body approaching two thousand, the college was administered in much the same way as it was in the 1930s, when it had fewer than 800 students. Educationally, its curriculum had become an inconsistent