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Join Dr. Jorge Santos of the CRES department and Dr. Pat Lawrence of University of South Carolina Lancaster to discuss t...
10/19/2026

Join Dr. Jorge Santos of the CRES department and Dr. Pat Lawrence of University of South Carolina Lancaster to discuss their recently published collection of Essays on the history of comic's censorship and the stories of those that have and continue to resist.

Come along for a walk from campus to neighboring Blackstone Gateway Park, which helps connect Holy Cross to the Blacksto...
10/16/2026

Come along for a walk from campus to neighboring Blackstone Gateway Park, which helps connect Holy Cross to the Blackstone River. The river is an important site for the Nipmuc community, as told in the documentary Pakachoag: Where the River Bends. The park is a place of natural beauty right in our neighborhood. End with a stop in the Blackstone River Greenway Visitor Center at Worcester. Part of the Planting the Seeds of Knowledge series. Links to more information in bio 🔗

Keep cheering for our Crusaders and enjoy more vintage game program covers featuring their remaining opponents as the fo...
10/15/2026

Keep cheering for our Crusaders and enjoy more vintage game program covers featuring their remaining opponents as the football season continues. What contest do you remember most?

Fall break is here already? The HC Libraries have reduced hours during this week. Get some well-deserved rest and pick u...
10/09/2026

Fall break is here already? The HC Libraries have reduced hours during this week. Get some well-deserved rest and pick up a book or two for leisure reading 📖

On this day in …The Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick (B.J.F.) Debating Society was founded on October 8, 1846 with the pu...
10/08/2026

On this day in …

The Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick (B.J.F.) Debating Society was founded on October 8, 1846 with the purpose of "the diffusion of knowledge, the cultivation of eloquence and readiness in debate," as stated in its constitution. In its early years, the Society inducted Honorary Members, including John Quincy Adams. It held weekly meetings in which members debated a historical or current event topic, such as "Has a state a right to secede from the Union?". The Society also had its own library, which contained important literature of the past and present, resources for preparing speeches and arguments for the weekly topic, and its use was exclusive to the members of the society.

When Dinand Library was constructed in 1927, it included a room dedicated to the Debating Society. These photos show the debate room in its early years, and then again in 2014. It has since been renovated into a flexible study space to support changing student needs.

Spooky season has officially begun, oh the horror! Get into the spirit of the season and browse the Dinand lobby display...
10/07/2026

Spooky season has officially begun, oh the horror! Get into the spirit of the season and browse the Dinand lobby display. It's filled with some of our best thrillers/chillers 😱 ghost stories 👻 weird tales 👽 and creature features 🧟‍♂️. Booooo-ks, DVDs, and streaming media are on display and ready to follow you home!

Be a Squirrel Scout with Holy Cross Libraries! Visit the Dinand Library Conference Room from 4-6PM tomorrow to learn abo...
10/05/2026

Be a Squirrel Scout with Holy Cross Libraries! Visit the Dinand Library Conference Room from 4-6PM tomorrow to learn about the Squirrel Mapper project, then go around campus and photograph any squirrels you find! Show your photos to the Squirrel Scout guides to earn your Squirrel Scout badge 🌟

On this day in …A groundbreaking ceremony for the Henry M. Hogan Campus Center took place on October 2, 1965. The “stud...
10/02/2026

On this day in …

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Henry M. Hogan Campus Center took place on October 2, 1965. The “student activity office building” was named for Henry M. Hogan, Class of 1918, who later served as Vice-President and General Counsel of the General Motors Corporation, to honor his devotion to the College and his leadership in the College’s Development program. As National Chairman of the Development program in the early 1960s, he successfully led a $20.4 million campaign.

The building was designed by the New York City architect firm Eggers and Higgins and constructed by the Granger Contracting Company of Worcester.

In the photos, President Thomas E. Gallagher, Class of 1966, and members of the Marching Band watch as Mr. Hogan and Rev. Raymond J. Swords, S.J., President of the College, ceremoniously turn over the first spadefuls of earth where the new building will stand.

You have walked past his name in the Science Library, but why is it there?A screening of The Legacy of Father Joseph T. ...
10/01/2026

You have walked past his name in the Science Library, but why is it there?

A screening of The Legacy of Father Joseph T. O'Callahan, Jesuit Chaplain on the USS Franklin will take place on Thursday, October 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. Drawn from the feature documentary In the Shadow of the USS Franklin, currently in post-production, this short film asks what O'Callahan's life of service and sacrifice leaves behind, and where that legacy lives today. Light refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Archives and Distinctive Collections, Department of Naval Sciences and the Office of Alumni Engagement.

📸 "Fr. Joseph T. O'Callahan standing on stairs near St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at College of the Holy Cross." Photograph. June 1959. Digital Commonwealth, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/xs55nb98f.

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