Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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in I 946 by Manhattaifs sons who completed their studies a short three decades ago. It is Htting today, when her sons have acquired and are acquiring positions of prominence, trust and responsibility, that We pause and review the scenes in which they carried on their academic prepara- tion. We shall ourselves soon be part of that great group, and in painting today's scenes and in reviewing those of yester- day, we are but handing down to our suc-

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ANHATTANITES love their hilltop campus. Encircled by Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, that winds like the deserted bed of a mean- dering stream through the sylvan splen- dor of bucolic Riverdale, it may be gliinpsed through the trees and foliage that surround it. But the scenes and buildings familiar to the students today working under the guidance of the Chris- tian Brothers are not those remenibered The Campus

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cessors, the nostalgic appreciation of the beauty that is today Manhattan. lt began away back in the fifties, al- most a century ago. The Brothers first established the Academy of the Holy lnfancy on Old Bloomingdale Road at l3lst Street. A sylvan grove near the banks of the American Rhinef' was the description. of old Manhattan at that time. WVhen the collegiate charter was granted by the State Board of Regents in 1863, the College was a modest four- story building amidst weeping willow trees, with a small hemicycle of driveway set in a wooden picket fence. The school faced East on the Old Bloomingdale Road. Grand Boulevard, now part of