{"id":6931,"date":"2013-12-07T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:05:41","slug":"this-week-in-university-history-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-and-the-effect-it-had-on-the-university-of-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2013\/12\/07\/this-week-in-university-history-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-and-the-effect-it-had-on-the-university-of-scranton-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in University History: The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Effect it had on the University of Scranton."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">A series of events leading to the Jesuits taking on both the administration and ownership of the University of Scranton occurred 72 years ago this week.\u00a0 At the time, the Christian Brothers were running the U, but with the almost daily drop in enrollment after December 7, 1941, at higher education institutions throughout the country due to young men joining the military, plus debt problems, the Brothers felt they needed to devote their time, talents and energies to La Salle College, which the order owned.\u00a0 According to Homer, Holy Cross Fathers politely declined the offer of running the U; Bishop Hafey then turned to the Society of Jesus which within a few months, agreed to the challenge.\u00a0 The Provincial, the Very Rev. 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Sweeney, S.J. noted in his acceptance letter, &#8220;&#8230;St. Ignatius was never one to run away from a difficult proposition and we are supposed to imitate his example.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;The Brothers had begun virtually from scratch with a mere eighteen students; forty-five years later they left a University with a growing body of loyal alumni, a strong reservoir of community support, and, not least of all, a singularly dedicated lay faculty already developing a solid reputation for teaching excellence.&#8221; Thank you Christian Brothers and Thank you to the Society of Jesus for all your good work in leading the University of Scranton.\u00a0 Let us carry on in our studies to make U proud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6875\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/11\/Pioneer_Jesuit_Faculty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6875 \" alt=\"Pioneer Jesuit Faculty\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/11\/Pioneer_Jesuit_Faculty-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pioneer Jesuit Faculty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Homer, Frank X.J.\u00a0 &#8220;The End of an Era: 1940-1942.&#8221;\u00a0 <i>The Scranton Journal<\/i>.\u00a0 Spring 1988: 6-9.\u00a0 Print. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of events leading to the Jesuits taking on both the administration and ownership of the University of Scranton occurred 72 years ago this week.\u00a0 At the time, the Christian Brothers were running the U, but with the almost daily drop in enrollment after December 7, 1941, at higher education institutions throughout the country [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[119,523,549],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections-2","category-news","tag-digital-collections","tag-university-archives","tag-weinberg-memorial-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}