Box 17

Scope and Contents Near daily diaries of events related to teaching and faculty at Woodstock College (e.g. faculty illness, exam schedules, thesis defenses, holidays, class changes, etc.).

Scope and Contents Exam sheets and thesis defenses.

Scope and Contents Notes on conducting oral examinations.

Scope and Contents Collection of criticisms on the method of oral examinations.

Scope and Contents Forms for graduation, oral examinations, class schedules.

Scope and Contents Oral examination questions, laid out as scenarios faced in the confession booth, for Woodstock College seminarians. These exams shed light on how priest's approached and categorized sins, how they understood sexuality and women, the church's relationship to protestantism, and the ways they were to handle issues of the times. This sheds particular light on the clergy sexual abuse as one question from 1933 directs confessors to take a priest's reputation into account when handling cases of...

Scope and Contents Theses defended by Woodstock College students.