Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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■f happily for all concerned, a workable system was finally arranged. In the October elections of Pen and Sword, the campus honorary society, Paul Cortissoz, Senior Artsman, was elected president, and John P. Fmneran, Senior Artsman, was chosen vice-president. During the last week of October, Brother B. Thomas, President of the College, issued a special statement to the Q nuhunig e on the e.xpansion of the College during the past year. Brother President stated that Manhat- tan had managed to handle a 100 percent increase in enrollment each term since Feb- ruary, 1945, and that every former Manhat- tan man who had served in the armed forces and had applied for re-admission was certain of being able to return to his old spot. He further stressed the invaluable State aid re- cened in the erection of classroom, labora- tory and housing facilities. -iiir-i gi»irmrai 153

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|FTER almost: a month ' s postpt)ne- mciit hrout;ht about by delays in the construction of new class- room units at the College, ap- proximately 2 00 students settled down to studies as the Fall term opened on October 7. Brother Agatho, Registrar, announced that the enrollment was the largest in the eighty- three-year history of the College, and that the freshman class alone numbered approxi- mately nine hundred students. According to Mr. John Cossa, in charge of eterans ' guid- ance, about 80 percent of the undergraduates were veterans. Work on the State-financed housing and classroom units on Jasper Field was pro- gressing slowly, and as a result, the different schools were forced to use the swing-shift system ith classes running from early morn into the late hours of the evening. Brother A. Thomas, Faculty Adviser of tiie college publications, appointed Francis J. Malley and Gerald L. Fitzgerald, Senior Artsmen, to the editorship of the Ouadrangh ' and Ma)!lhitUi iitf. respectively. The traditional hazing period for incom- ing Freshmen went by the board as the Class of 1949 failed in its efforts to revive the annual activity. The Frosh-Soph ■Rush ' and football game failed to materialize and many an upperclassman, hearkening back to the days when these events were proud and vig- orous traditions, expressed the hope that the Class of lyso might set this tradition back on the rit;ht path in September oi 1947. Another Riverdale tradition, the Victory Hop, returned to the Riverdale scene after an absence of four years. Beta Sigma Fra- ternity sponsored the Hop which in pre- vious years had been the occasion for the celebration of Jasper football victories. The scene of this year s social season highlight was the Colonnades Room of the Essex House. The music was provided by Jeno Bartal and his orchestra, and Don Dunphy, ace sports announcer and JManhattan gradu- ate, acted as Master of Oremonies. Brother C. Justin, popular professor of Political Science, was appointed head of the Department of Labor Management, a newly- ulSr 4 instituted section of the School of Business. The new department offers courses in Sta- tistics, Business Organization, Labor Prob- lems, Development of American Industries, Labor Law, Industrial Psychology, and Trade L ' nionism. One of the minor e ents that will be long remembered was the Battle of the Book- store. The first few weeks of October saw lone lines stretchini: far down the basement corridor of Manhattan Hall as veteran-stu- dents clamored for books. The small college bookstore was unprepared to cope with the tremendous demands on its supplies, but J 2

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STUDENT COUNCIL COGNIZANT ot the importance oi al- ii ) vint; the student body a share of responsibility in their own education, the college authorities have always encouraged the work of the Student Council as a vehicle of student actiMty and self-government. The Council consists of the President of the stu- dent body and ten representatives working under the supervision of a faculty moder- ator to regulate and co-ordinate all student extra-curricular activity. AtjycJ This year the initial task faced by the Council was the guidance of the largest enrollment during the eighty-three year his- tory of the college. Super ' ision of more than twenty-three hundred students demanded a well organized and efiicient council. During the Fall semester, the Council was under the supervision of the popular Alfred Hughes, who was succeeded upon his January grad- uation by Edward Hughes. Besides sponsoring a student assembly in the Fall to increase interest in extra-curricular activities, the Council also supervised the Freshman elections, the return of tea dances to the campus, and directed the annual Campus Day with the Junior Class. All this and all the rest of campus acti ' ity comprised the work of the Student Council and of its newly-appointed ] [oderator. Brother Cyprian James. 154