Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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W - ,L --. -T -11' A-'vi '-::A -E',YS'35! , t!:iN'- A 2 T ' ' ' fX Tx T 5 4-e-ylieribfzhog T ,f ' , M ' ' J. CTDONNELL A. O'NElL E. KEARNEY E. MURPHY SecreTary PresidenT Vice-PresidenT Treasurer HISTORY UF CLASS UF '32 N The Tall oT nineTeen hundred and TwenTy-eighT There appeared aT The porTals oT ManhaTTan some Three hundred or more vigorous youThs, splendid examples oT young American manhood, imbued wiTh The spiriT oT accomplishmenT, Treading on The paTh ThaT led To The Throne oT a greaT lady. They had come To pay her homage. She graciously accepTed Them and held each one aTTecTionaTely To her loving bosom. She was Their Alma lvlaTer. And Thus was The preTace To a saga oT Tour years wriTTen. T-Tas iT ever been pronounced by morTal man ThaT a Treshman is shy? Yes, iT has, somewhere in The dim dark pasT and iT may again in The TuTure. BuT now we are dealing wiTh ThaT golden period oT Time which marked The second year oT The presidency oT BroTher Cornelius. T-Terein we Tind a Treshman, who, aTTer only one shorT week in The aTmosphere oT old lvlanhaTTan, had assumed The characTerisTics oT a lvlanhaTTan Man. T-le was TirsT Tor his Alma MaTer and Then Tor his class. T-Te had made a broTher oT each oT his classmaTes and Thereby creaTed a spiriT ThaT was To carry him Through his collegiaTe career. Shyness? NOT a Trace oT iT aTTer ThaT TirsT week. Day upon day, in SmiTh AudiTorium and on Chapel sTeps could be heard The praise oT Alma TvlaTer Trom lusTy ThroaTs in song and in cheer. Class acTiviTies were assumed wiTh a will. ln TruTh, They were To be a crediT To The College by The Sea. Tagged Through The ooze 1 h erhnls, nor The ling's h ,tory Up To I Cl .JO v Ti d GTS . earl The Once T, T mr 9 o MTThuToliiJiCh TT Th TTT Whig T Ty Trifllllllessial BUT Ti 50PT0mOreiTesm6 Tlrixers and STU C Tllwei Our Qffyfny rQi ' ' f I 6 areal socie lg weapc irrfzzfzz nie iipmruwere Torczo TTT' ' TTT To SUPPTT Clgarinin 5'-,ri Merell' To re ' ,Ming crediT ThaT iT T, , 'en Miyly QTV Then came The TU9 .rCTicago's and New Y he oiven To us TJT' hug Qlpinniless in The TGV imeiyrl However. They C' T32 was There T0 6 Thin and spiriT aqainsT 1 HowsweeT The cup o rin our TooThall classics calves, so oTT came our 'TGV TTT hesicle our Triendlj T Yields oT exTra-curricu .., T.TenhaTTan There had , rel.C.h.A,A Ah T -. i I ' l : im place 5 Team in ii:navecTouhTs, Tnqurm y M l A OUT Wes The lloge A-Q ' Tyololl TTT' Oiherl The H in The mieresf or drier .lin which TaTer becar Tc' . Tiiiimeles dffecrefr Nairn Trom bofh rg To 0 - I C TT: I Timm S0CfeTf 'hqlliersl T' llllc .cy We Til , llsloel B ' i Jllheirhl UT In T, ll T een Mor T S Gm Was me .gr T., .T ef J , T T ff Tgfv T16 ATN' - ca I gie, 34 Wreiil if .gn .iq 'W

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BuT whaT was ThaT discordanT noTe? Who was iT ThaT dared To disTurb The smooThness ThaT so TypiTied The even Tenor oT exisTence oT The class oT '322 lT was The Sophomore! BuT why should we complain? Cardinals, archbishops, docTors, lawyers, and sTaTesmen, Trom The class oT '63 upwards, had To go Through iT: why noT we? Our green caps and greener Ties were emblemaTic oT TuTure iniTiaTion inTo a greaT socieTy, The lVlanhaTTan College Alumni. l3urThermore, The Sophomore had unwarily given a weapon. ln numbers There is sTrengTh, and one green cap in Trouble called oTher green caps To his aid To Turn inglorious deTeaT inTo vicTory. We were made To Trudge our weary way in The guTTer. We were noT allowed To use The EasT Arch. We were Torced To carry a liTTle green book oT rules called The Koran. We had To supply cigareTTes and maTches To upper classmen. BuT why all This humilia- Tion2 Merely To remind us ThaT we were green. And leT iT here be said To our everlasTing crediT ThaT iT was Taken in The spiriT in which iT was given. Then came The Tug-o'-war. And whaT a day ThaT wasl The combined Torces oT Chicago's and New York's gangdom never Took any enemies Tor . rides equalling Those given To us by husky Sophomores. Fancy The indigniTy oT being leTT bareTooT and penniless in The Tar-oTT regions oT upper WesTchesTer and norTheasTern New Jersey. l-lowever, They could noT break our indomiTable spiriT. AT The crack oT The gun, '32 was There To a man and ready Tor combaT. BuT alas, oT whaT avail was brawn and spiriT againsT The power oT an auTomobile2 And so The class oT 32 was dragged Through The ooze ThaT was TibbeT's Creek. HY l A Tomobiles l-low sweeT The cup oT revenge when drunk even unTo The dregs. u I . l war-Tanks, nor The king's horses could have sTayed The v:cTorio.us march oT 32 ovcr '3l in our TooTball classics and again. in baskeTball. IT was high Time wg asaerTed ourselves, so oTT came our caps and Ties To be Treasured in The museum o a appy memory. Orfals Oi BuT beside our Triendly rivalry wiTh The.SophorEore we werefupq angl doirlglig nples O oTher ,Tields oT exTra-curricular acTiviTies. Prior To T e enTrance o e cass o ,ding on inTo lvlanhaTTan There hadhneiver beendahregular TreshmpnfTooTball+Tearn. lnaslnuch as The l. C. A. A. A. A. a impose T e one-year rue or vars: y payers. I was homage' up To us To place a Team in The Tield as poTenTial varsiTy maTer1al. We did lusT ThaT. J bosom' IT you have doubTs, inquire oT New York Fire Commissioner John. Dorman.. l-le senT iur years a Team up To play our lads buT iT so happened ThaT Tuhef only Thing The Tire. laddfges could play was The hose. Then again, dramaTics were in a sad sTaTe oT' aTTairs.h or some reason or oTher, The l-layes DramaTic SocieTy had ceased To TuncTi.on. W ere- Yeg, iT upon, in The inTeresT oT dramaTics aT lVlanhaTTan, .we decided To organize-.a socleTy W We oT our own which laTer became The l-layes DramaTic SocieTy. An enTerprising ggoup lno Of our gIa55maTes direcTed, acTed, and produced Three one-acT plays which rew ar of The large acclaim Trom boTh TaculTy and sTudenT body alike. -lT TurTher esTablished a only one Tradilrional dramaTic socieTy, The membership oT which is llmlTed solely To Treshmen: 3risTicS of The l:ooTlighTers. I-le . . 'laS5- ' T ' Ti ns saw some ' d. Th T Tand second semes er examina o .ThaT was fall k3Ag,niiifhlOI,i!5,Si!CT3Ir lgjfsiin leaviigliur ranks They Took someThing. wiTh Them, The Her lllall ' lvlaTer. The wenT TorTh inTo The world cloThed in The knowledge a legacy oTThe1r Alma Y . .Jr ,F H was nO+ 6 be hearcl ThaT They had once been lv1anhaTTan Men anglhwouI,lddreTaun I sliipggone quader of ' 'i leasanT Thing To waTch Them drop ouT ere ey 61 GCCOVWP ' . acflvlliles p D . ' Their ourney buT ours was The Task To carry on. ge 1 , ' ei. 5' ' 'ir .yi fl H L- N-' 35 71