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Author McCabe, Thomas Allan

Title Miracle on High Street : the rise, fall, and resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J. / Thomas A. McCabe
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: Downtown Monks and the Miracle on High Street -- Newark's Forgotten Riot -- "Necessary, Useful, and Beautiful": Founding Fathers and a Catholic Day College, 1868-1900 -- The Making of a Modern Catholic Prep School, 1900-1926 -- St. Benedict's Prep from Depression to War, 1926-1945 -- The Duke, Divine Comedy, and Discipline at St. Benedict's Prep -- Benedict's Hates a Quitter: Athletics at a Catholic Prep School -- "He Was Afraid of the City": Abbot Patrick, the Monastic Family, and Postwar Newark, 1945--1967 -- "Camelot Is Dead": The Newark Riots and the Closing of St. Benedict' Prep, 1967-1972 -- "A Possible School": The Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep, 1972-1977 -- The Headmaster and the Street, 1977-1986 -- Conclusion
Summary Situated just outside downtown Newark, St. Benedict's is a model of successful inner-city school, with 95% of its graduates going on to college. 'Miracle on High Street' is the story of how the monks of St. Benedict's transformed their venerable yet outdated school to become a thriving part of the community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark, N.J.) -- History
SUBJECT St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark, N.J.) fast
Subject Preparatory schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History
Minorities -- Education (Secondary) -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Minorities -- Education (Secondary)
Preparatory schools
New Jersey -- Newark
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010032685
ISBN 9780823234950
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9780823233120
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9780823233106
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