Contending with Modernity; Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Book

	Introduction: Catholic Higher Education in 1900	3
1	Awaking to the Organizational Challenge	21
	Symptoms of Crisis	22
	Realignment of Secondary and Collegiate Education	32
2	Rationalizing the Catholic System	39
	The Problem of Unity and the Role of the Catholic University	39
	The Origins and Early Development of the CEA	43
	The High School Movement and Standardization	46
	Standing Firm by the Ratio Studiorum	51
	Biting the Curricular Bullet	55
3	The Impact of World War I	62
	The NCWC and the Issue of Centralization	63
	Standardization Once Again	69
	The Students' Army Training Corps	72
4	A New Beginning: Catholic Colleges 1900-1930	81
	The Catholic University of America	84
	Catholic Women's Colleges, 1900-1930	89
	The University Movement, 1900-1925	95
5	The Intellectual Context	105
	The Scholastic Revival	105
	Neoscholasticism and the Catholic Worldview	114
6	The Beginnings of the Catholic Renaissance	124
	Americanism and Its Medieval Scholastic Background	125
	The Postwar Catholic Resurgence	131
	Developments in the Colleges	136
7	The Catholic Revival Reaches Full Flood	146
	1928 and After: The Post-Al Smith Context	146
	Creating a Catholic Culture	148
	Catholic Action: Background and Beginnings	152
	Catholic Action and the Colleges	154
	Philosophy and Theology	163
8	Institutional Developments: Moving into Graduate Work	167
	Graduate Work: Background and Beginnings	169
	Graduate Expansion in the 1920s	171
	Jesuit Self-Criticism and Reform	178
9	The Tribulations of the Thirties	184
	Problems with Accreditation	184
	Reorganization and Its Tensions	188
	Graduate Work Once Again	197
10	World War II and Institutional Shifts	209
	Specialized Wartime Programs	211
	Research, Development, and Expanding Educational Horizons	215
	Graduate Work and Related Developments	220
	The Sister Formation Movement	226
11	Assimilative Tendencies and Curricular Crosscurrents	235
	Catholic Colleges and the Race Issue	235
	Catholics and the Postwar Student Movement	240
	Debating the Liberal Arts	246
	The Drive for Curricular Integration	250
	Religion versus Theology	256
12	Controversy: Backlash Against the Catholic Revival	261
	The Anti-Catholic Backlash	261
	The Catholic Campaign Against Secularism	264
	Secularism and the Family Crisis	268
	John Courtney Murray and the Church-State Issue	274
13	Transition to a New Era	283
	The Historical Recovery of Americanism	283
	Self-Criticism and the Search for Excellence	287
	The Splintering of the Scholastic Synthesis	297
14	The End of an Era	305
	The Contagion of Liberty	305
	Accepting Modernity	318
	Abbreviations Used in Notes	323
	Notes	325
	Index	419