Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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classrooms are arranged on the second floor. The top floor is devoted to general biology and bacteriology laboratories with adjoining prep and storage rooms, an office for faculty members, and two classrooms, one equipped for secretarial eourses. Reverend James Sherman, O.S.A., conducted the annual Retreat. The Athletic Club’s Barn Dance, fol- lowed by the Sadie Hawkins Recognition Dance, was the incitement to a series of vivid social affairs. In Decem- ber the On-Stagers received their greatest public acclaim for the three-act comedy The Milky Way. Actual student boxing and wrestling matches renovated Sports Night, and the third annual Christmas Concert was sung by the new Choral Society, while the Student Council sponsored the Orphans Christmas Party. It is well to repeat, in conclusion, that a history cannot explain itself; nor can it of itself conciliate the Mind of God and human interpretation of events. But no inquiring and opened intelligence can fail to uncover, beneath the moil of daily labor and the ministrations of fortune in the history of Merrimack College, the bene- ficent and perpetual Graees which, we know, come through Mary, Our Lady of Good Counsel. The ceremony over, the first graduates leave the stage. (Insert) The Very Reverend Joseph M. Dougherty, O.S.A., gives the invocation address. James P. McLaughlin, A.B., for academic excellence receives the Governor Dever Award of 1000 for graduate studies from His Excellency’s own hand.