Serving the Intellect, Touching the Heart: A Portrait of Santa Clara University, 1851-2001

By Gerald McKevitt and George F. Giacomini Jr.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886571465
• ISBN13: 9781886571464
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Santa Clara University
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Photographic Journey Through Time!

This is a great book for anyone who is into history or photography or Santa Clara. Here's a little more information from the inside cover: "Secure in the shadow'ere the substance fade." With that motto, photographers in Gold Rush California urged patrons to preserve the likenesses of loved ones through the new technology of daguerreotype. Serving the Intellect, Touching the Heart examines the pictorial shadow of Santa Clara University, California's older instution of higher learning, on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara grew up with the state of California. Ot also grew up with photographic technology, which was barely a decade old when the school first opened it's doors. Throughout the nineteenth century, the West's most famous early photographers focused their lenses on what one visitor hailed "the most beautiful college in the entire California." Soon after the invention of the Kodak camera, students themselves began documenting parties, picnics, football rallies, firlfriends, and impromptu antics of classmates. For a century and a half nothing escaped the camera's eye - earthquakes, fires, the effects of two world wars, Bronco athletic teams, the admisson of women, the upheavals of the 1960's, and the demonstrations of the 1970's. Pictures tell many stories. Santa Clara's photo album reflects the development of Clifornia and the changing face of Silicon Valley. It also records ongoing debates about curricula, student discipline, pedagogy, and even the purposes of higher education. When examined in its continuity, the visual history of Santa Clara University manifests a perduring central theme - the tension between permances and accommodation. Thoughtout it's history, Santa Clara has struggled to retain its distincitve Catholic and Jesuit identity while serving the needs of the ever-evolving culture in which it exists. This new volume is richly illustrated with nearly four hundred images tracing the University's long history, many of them never before published. Firsthand written accounts - excerpts from hundreds of letter, diaries, interviews, newspaper reports, and magazine stories - complement the visual record.