Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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- - -,ln .,-,A :X . U. ..,, . rc l THE NEWTON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY PresidenT ..... .... E RED A. CLEAR Vice-PresidenT . . . MAURICE DONOVAN Secrelfary , , . CHARLES CAPUTO Treasurer . . DANIEL MARSHALL URING The second cenTury aTTer The dea+h oT The Tamed maThemaTician and physicisT, Sir Isaac NewTon, Reverend BroTher Eelix organized The maThemaTical socieTy bearing The name oT NewTon. The socieTy has progressed maTerially since Those TirsT sTruggling days. urllil HOW iT is one oT The mosT imporTanT socieTies on The campus. lTs purpose is To show The human relaTionship beTween maThemaTics and socieTy in general. The main lecTurer aT each meeTing has been The Reverend ModeraTor, whose unTiring eTTorTs broughT new and inTeresTing discussions To each gaThering. Much inTeresT was also shown by The members and The oTTicers. There are Three grades in The socieTy: Junior, Senior and Honorary memb6'FS- These Terms are indicaTive oT The degree oT The member and noT oT The class. GS ETS b mem ership is limiTed To Juniors and Seniors oT The engineering school only. 244 we M 1 , brim sTa his will ma ere sTuc des elig Soci

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THE DEBA-I-ING SOCIETY Presidenr ............. Jonn H. KEARNEY, '32 Vice-Presidenl . . . . ROBERT MALONEY, '33 Secrelary . . . . JOSEPH H. GARAHAN, '33 Manager . . . JAMES STAVRACOS, '33 Moderalor . .... JOHN WHALEN, A.B. Coach ............ NICHOLAS 6. WESTHOF, A.B. ETER five years of oblivion, Manhallan leaped inlo Jrhe forensic limelighr a year ago, when The arf was resurrec+ed by 'rhe Tormaiion of lhe Debaling Sociely. During +he pasl' year, enlhusiasm and Jralenl have been so grealr as +o meril com- parison wilh lhe mos'r glorious lradilions of Jasper debaling Jreams. Their opponenls during Jrhe pasr year have included: Columbia Universily, New Yorlc Universily l2l, Georgelown Universily, Fordham Universily l2l, Fordham Univer- sily Law Deparlmenr, S+. John's College, Villanova College, Providence College, Cily College, and Jrhe College of New Rochelle. The Debaling Sociely has made hislory a+ ManhaHan by conducling a good many of Their conlesls over Jrhe radio, lhrough lhe courlesy of local broadcasling s+a'rions. Their record has been an enviable one, and 'rhey have accomplished much +ha'r will add To The grealer glory of Alma Maier. l T V 4 243 .....,..,.,...,... ,.,.,,., . 1 4

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-Qi-E.. , ', ag ,f... -L.g,-,,....M A my I I ix Q . 'Ii , I1 AMERICAN 50cIETY UF CIVIL ENGINEERS PresidenT .............. LOUIS J. PERSBACKER SecreTary . . . . VICTOR J. LO PINTO Treasurer . . . EDWARD J. RUDDY I-IE sTudenT chapTer OT The American SocieTy oT Civil Engineers is one oT The mosT prominenT and heIpTuI organizaTions in The school. ITs main purpose is To bring The sTudenTs oT engineering inTo closer conTacT wiTh The acTiviTies oT The ouT- sTanding men in The proTession. IT likewise aTTords The sTudenT an opporTuniTy, during W! his undergraduaTe days, To view imporTanT deveIopmenTs in ThaT Tield in which he i will Ia+er be an acTive member. . V- In as acTive a year as The socieTy has had, iT wiTnessed, among oTher Things, I many such imporTanT consTrucTions as The building oT The Holland Tunnel, and The I erecTion oT The Florianapolis Bridge, Through The medium oT slides aided by careTuIIy sTudied IecTures given by one oT iTs sTudenT members. Membership in This socieTy is a marlced asseT To The undergraduaTe engineer desirous oT prominence in his Tield oT endeavor. Upon graduaTion he becomes eligible To membership in The ouTside socieTy OT proTessionaI engineers. This ouTside socieTy is The largesT and mosT noTed in The proTession ThroughouT The counTry. I - - - ,- -. ee- - f-hf ,Y A, ',,1fQ, :':1i.1f'-,i1fL1..1?.'-L H l-TT'-K-'71-'fvifili'-Y: i-'fiifffiiffif ffiiii15fiEfi??:.iifffffggbilf .... UA-I---VA 245