Holy Cross Historical Trivia

<p>Osvaldo Golijov has been composer-in-residence at the Spoleto USA Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Music Alive series, the Marlboro Music School and Festival, the Ravinia Festival, and several other festivals. He also is co-composer-in-residence, together with the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Golijov is Associate Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1991. He is also on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory.</p>

<p>List all colleges that have produced 2 or more Boston Celtic Hall of Famers. Please list the schools and the players. (Use as criteria for "Boston Celtic Hall of Famer" as players that have been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame AND have had their number retired by the Boston Celtics.)</p>

<p>Holy Cross--Bob Cousy & Tom Heinsohn
San Francisco--Bill Russell & K.C. Jones</p>

<p>What is the smallest school ever to win the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship?</p>

<p>Holy Cross has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 2700 students and won the 1947 NCAA Title.</p>

<p>Holy Cross (1947); LaSalle (1954); San Francisco (1955 & 1956); Loyola (1963); Marquette (1977); Georgetown (1984); Villanova (1985)</p>

<p>Can you list all the Catholic colleges that have won the NCAA men's college basketball championships since the tournament's inception in 1939?</p>

<p>Holy Cross is a member of The Patriot League, which was founded on the principles of admitting athletes who are academically representative of their class. Participation in athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of a well-rounded education. Full League members include American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. </p>

<p>The Patriot League adopted the concept of an academic index as a way to standardize the admissions evaluation of athletes, and to ensure that their academic credentials were generally reflective of those of the rest of the incoming class</p>

<p>There are no graduate students at Holy Cross; the undergraduate student is the sole focus. Students receive complete faculty attention and full access to the College’s facilities. Professors conduct all classes and laboratories—there are no graduate teaching assistants. 95% of Holy Cross professors have doctorates in their field.</p>

<p>Major League Baseball Player: A product of Holy Cross, Jumping Joe Dugan was a mainstay at 3rd base for the New York Yankees for 7 seasons during the 1920's, playing on 5 Pennant winners and 3 World Championship teams. Dugan got his nickname 'Jumping Joe' because he jumped his contract from the Philadelphia Athletics on several occassions.</p>

<p>Joseph</a> Anthony Dugan (1897 - 1982) - Find A Grave Memorial</p>

<p>Timothy Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." He studied for two years at the College of the Holy Cross. Leary received a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Alabama in 1943. He received a master's degree at Washington State University in 1946, and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. He went on to become an Assistant Professor at Berkeley, a director of psychiatric research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, and a lecturer in psychology at Harvard University.</p>

<p>According to the American Chemical Society, Holy Cross is one of the nation's top producers of ACS certified chemistry graduates. Holy Cross is also building big for science, breaking ground last fall on a new $60 million Integrated Science Complex, with 44,000 square feet of new lab space. The existing science building will be rebuilt inside and attached to the new labs.</p>

<p>Holy Cross has become one of the 50 most selective colleges in the country. All entrants rank in the top few percent of their high school class. The college is ranked in the top 3% of colleges whose graduates receive doctorate degrees; graduates have twice the chance of acceptance into medical school than the national average.</p>

<p>A report summarizing the number of doctoral degrees awarded in the United States by undergraduate institution over the time period 1920-1995 places Holy Cross 29th in the country in producing doctorate recipients out of a total of 249 private 4 year colleges.
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<p>Each year, more than 100 Holy Cross graduates (14% of the class) enter law schools accredited by the American Bar Association – one of the highest rates in the nation. Holy Cross has award-winning moot and mock trial teams and a unique student-published law journal, providing graduates with meaningful experience that appeals to the nation's top law schools.</p>

<p>Barron's Profiles of American Colleges includes Holy Cross in the top 64 "most competitive" schools.</p>

<p>Holy Cross has the highest rank of the 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities in the percentage of its graduates who go on to serve in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.</p>

<p>2,210 Holy Cross students (79% of enrollment) participate in 27 varsity sports, 11 club sports, and seven intramural sports.</p>

<p>Holy Cross Alumni giving reached 53.2% participation in 2006-07, one of the highest in the nation.</p>

<p>There are more than 550 Prelaw students (20% of the student body) currently enrolled at Holy Cross.</p>