Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Friends of Cardinal Hayes ON Thursday evening, May 20th, the Tenth Annual meeting of the Friends of the Cardinal Hayes Library was held in the Alumni Room. Fo- cusing on the Centenary of the Brothers in the United States, the meeting was in the manner of a reception to Brother An- gelus Gabriel, Professor of Eng- lish at the College and author of the History of the Christian Brothers in the United States. Presided over by Mr. Thomas Reiners, the meeting was addressed by Brother Bonaven- ture Thomas, President and by Brother A. Thomas, Director of the Library. After the enumeration of many gifts to the library, the announcements continued to list the extraor- dinary material received this year in the let- ters of Brother Azarias of the Cross, given by his aged sister. Miss Mary Mullany, through the good offices of Brother Cor- nelius, Director of Christian Brothers Acad- emy in Syracuse, New York. Signalizing the century past as a Century of Faith and Zeal, Brother Gabriel pointed out the responsibility of Brother Jerome for the bulk of factual material in his se en hundred page book, stressing his own part in the assembling and codifying of the material. He continued, stressing significant events in the history, with particular attention to the story of Manhattan College. Largely, through the instrumentality of the Friends, the Cardinal Hayes Library has grown from a collection of thirty-five thou- sand books in 19. 8 to more than ninety thou- sand in 1948. Significant additions are chron- icled regularly in the pages of the Bulletin of the Friends. The Friends of Cardinal Hayes Library remain the pillars of education, a fact that might induce present-day students to think of the library when confronted with the disposal of worth-while books some day in the misty future. In the normal course of afi airs most of us have taken the house of books more or less ■ for granted, forgetting that we are the heirs of a mighty collection which did not come into being overnight, but was built ' olume by volume, page by page. The job is not fin- ished, however; and Christian foresight has provided adequate stack space for years to come. 181

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Student Government Commission C ' INCE 19-40 Manhattan College has been the seat of the National Commission on Student Government, a body designated to issue a model constitution for student gov- ernments throughout the country. This job IS certainly no small one, and the time already spent on it is long, e ' en though the fruits of the labor are not seen in the field of endeavor. In the years to come, the task of John McCarthy, Al Coakley, John Brosnan and all the rest shall find successful completion, thusly providing a better educa- tion for the men who follow in the sequence of time, through the American halls of learn- ing. Even when a model constitution is written there will yet remain the chore of selling it to the students and educators; a constitution without adherents marking only an isolated mile post along the trail. 180

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Guard of Honor 182