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BC’s history is deeply intertwined with that of the Irish-American community in Boston—and of our own college. BC was founded in part as a response to discriminatory policies against Irish immigrants and Catholics at Harvard in the nineteentth century. According to the college’s website, when BC moved to Chestnut Hill in 1913, “the University celebrated this connection [with the Irish] by naming the largest and most important room on campus the Irish Hall.” But Harvard’s Turner believes that...
Best general references: Fortnightly review, LIII, 440; Nineteentth Century, XXVII, 553; National Review, XVI, 496; Contemporary Review, LVII, 240; Public Opinion, VII, 50, 312; IX, 77, 104; X, 251; J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I, Ch. 15; Stimson, American Statute...
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