Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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r= =1? 5 iH li halt-w.iy mark in the school year was marked by that inevita- ble uneasiness and sobriety sit - nityint; that examination week was at hand. Activities were suspended as one and all settled down to an extra session with the bot)ks. Needless to say, the ma)ority proved their academic mettle by comini; throLigli tiie series of examin.itions without acquiring that dread iaikire. Many succeeded in acquiring tliat coveted 3. index to merit a place on the De.m ' s honor list. February was a cold and icy month. A ten- inch snowfall blanketed tlie Riverdale scene and Jack Frost ' s frigid blasts turned Jasper- ville into a winter wonderland. One (Jiiad- vdiigh editorialist was so inspired that lie devoted an inspired prose effort on the de- light of Winterset. The holy season of Lent was ushered in o February and DeLaS.ille Chapel became a daily visitation spot fiir both students aiul faculty. Lenten dexotions were encouraged and throughout the campus an atmosphere of Lenten sexerity and self-sacrifice pre- vailed. Many day students awoke aw hour earlier in the morning and made the trip to Manhattan in order to attend daily Mass at the college chapel. Others attended Mass at home before coming to class. F eryone seemed to be doini; his share to do as much as possible for Him who did so much for us. The untimely passing of Brother Richard, manager of the Manhattan College book- store, on February f7 shrouded the campus in a veil of sadness. Brother Richard died of a cerebral hemorrhage at St, Joseph ' s Hospital, ' onkers, five days after he was stricken. A Solemn High Mass was offered on February 11 in DeLaSalle Chapel for the repose of his soul. The Mass was well at- tended by both students and faculty. Upon commencement of the second term of the school year, the five barracks con- structed by the State of New York for stu- dent veterans at the college were ready for occupancy and the resident undergraduates who moved into these ex-G. L dwellings found them to be quite serviceable. A course in Play Production was intro- duced at the collcLre for the first time. Frede- rick Little of the Theater L epartment of Columbia Lhiiversity was appointed instruc- tor of this course on theater work. Shortly 186

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MANHATTAN ENGINEER Proudest moment of O ' Keefe ' s editorial career was the night of November 21 at At- lantic City ' s Hotel Ambassador when he accepted the A. F. Davis award for 1946. THE MANHATTAN ENGINEER was peared twice in its new quarterly format, founded in 1940 to give the undergradu- Joseph Gambone then succeeded to the seat ates in the School of Engineering a medium of editor w4ien the Spring term t)pened. in which they could expound their ideas in the engineering field. The first departmental periodical published at Manhattan, it is still the only technical journal. The Engineer is an outgrowth of The Transit News, an engineering alumni pub- lication which acted as a medium of news of the engineering alumni. The News is still retained, but only as one department of The Manhattan Engineer. Junior Engineer George E, O ' Keefe su ceeded former editor John B. Walsh as Edi- tor-in-Chief at the beginning of the school year, and under O ' Keefe the periodical ap- 185

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T ■ after the term started, the Manhattan Col- lei e Phiyers with the co-operation of mod- erator-Professor Donald Carty and Mr. Little chose The Queen ' s Husband, a drawmg- room comedy by Robert Sherwood, as the play to be produced m May. Mr. Little, as director, immediately set about the selection of his cast. Sports talk around the campus no longer centered about the basketball team which had dominated the headlines for the past few months. George Eastment ' s track squad be- came the favorite of the Jasper sports- minded. February track meets at the Madison Square Garden brought out a goodly body of the Manhattan College student group. NFCCS Week at Manhattan m the middle of February was well received. A program explaining the workings of the National Federation of Catholic College Students was presented and an appreciation of its endeavors became more apparent than ever before. 187