Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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7 ' -Q? rr' man Hall. The Park Campus includes lhe The Building was solemnly blessed by The 'rennis courfs, S+. John's l-lall and Jrhe Lale Cardinal Hayes on December 6, Chapel. I936. Here lhe Junior and Senior classes Finally we come 'ro lhe mosf recen+ meer. The Gradua+e School was perma- addilion To lhe campus, Kealing l-lall, nenlly moved info This building in I937. ii

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1 l1 an 6.1 IITHIS building is The one around which mosT of Fordham's oTTicial acTiviTy cenTers. The AdminisTraTion Building houses The adminisTraTive oTTices of The College. Originally The building was known as The Rose Hill Manor House when iT was erecTed in I838. In I87O, norTh and souTh wings were added which served as living quarTers Tor The TaculTy and as a dining room and chapel Tor The sTudenTs. ln i924 The Building was re- modeled and modernized and since ThaT Time iT has housed The OTFices oT The Dean oT STudies, The Treasurer, The RecTor, and The RegisTrar. During The pasT summer. The new wing was builT. Here are Tound The Offices oT The Dean oT STudies, The Personnel DirecTor and The Alumni fxssociaTion. This air view OT Fordham's campus shows The beauTy of Rose Hill's sevenTy acres. The FronT Campus sTreTching along Fordham Road is crescenT shaped by The Duane Library, Larkin Hall, Col- lins AudiTorium. The Chapel and ST. John's Hall. The Quadrangle, behind fXdminisTraTion Building is bounded on The oTher Two sides by Hughes Hall and Dealy Hall. Behind The Quadrangle is The EasT Campus which is bound by KeaTing Hall, The Gymnasium, and Free-

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EARLY in 'rhe summer of I84l, Jrhe Righl Reverend John Hughes formally opened S+. John's College. Five years laler, ii was raised by 'rhe legisla'rure lo +he digni+y of a universiry and placed by Bishop Hughes under lhe direclion of +he Jesuils who had come from S+. Mary's, Kenruclcy. a+ his invi+a+ion and had purchased +he college properly. The lirsf Jesuil presidenf was +he Reverend Auguslus Thebaud. Since his presidency in i846 +here have been +wen+y-one presidenls under whom +he college has grown in'ro a universily wilh Hs several depar+men+s, and from scarcely a hun- dred sfudenls +o nearly ren Jrhousand, +he larges+ Calrholic educa- Jrional ins+il'ul'ion in lhe Uniled Slales. ln +he opening seclion we have piclrured 'rhe beau+ies of Jrhe Fordham campus as i+ is loday. while in succeeding pages are rhe por+rai+s of Jrhose adminisiering lhe policies of lhis progressive inslilulion ol higher learning.