Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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The Tins X School of Liturgical TLCusic |[ N answer to the decree of Pope Pius X, proclaiming a systematic re- form of Church Music, Mrs. Justine Ward, in 1918, founded the Pius X Chair of Music at Manhattanville, under the patronage of His Emi¬ nence Cardinal Hayes. Elere under the direction of Mother Stevens, who for eleven years has been the chief interpreter of Mrs. Ward’s method, the Gregorian chant which Pius X longed to restore to its proper place in the liturgical services has been taught with phenomenal results. Since 1918, the chair of music has grown into a school whose influence has spread the chant. Today the scope of its work has broadened and ex¬ tended beyond the College to various parts of the world and yet it still remains a part of the College. An increasing number of students benefit by this school of music, for they take its courses as electives, counting them towards their B.A. degrees, with the result that they have gained a deeper sense of the never- ceasing wonder of music. All the courses are given in Pius X Hall, where the whole atmosphere has contributed to the wide interest that it has spread. Its structure has none of the appearance of newness, whether one approaches it from the campus or by the picturesque gate¬ way from the street, the Romanesque fagade confronts one with every aspect of long intercourse with time. Within, the sights and sounds of a noisy world are shut out by the wall nearest the street, which is blank, its monastic lines enhanced by a sculptured crucifix, an example of French Romanesque art. The platform for the lectures is surmounted by a great beam similar to a rood-beam. On this are inscribed the words that may be called the keynote of the movement of which the Pius X Hall is the outward and visible sign: ' Ex ore infantium perfecisti laudem.’ M. YD. H.

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Eleanor S. Kenny, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. Professor of Education and Psychology Rudolf K. Michels, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Finance Isabel McKinney, A.B. Instructor in Musical Appreciation Mary McCarthy, R.S.C.J., A.B. Instructor in French John X. Pyne, S.J. Lecturer in Psychology Irene Rabke Director of Glee Club Maurice T. Rogalin, Ph.D. Lecturer in Education Arthur Remy, Ph.D. Lecturer in History of Civilization Frederick J. Rex, M.A. Lecturer in German Literature John A. Ryan, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Physics Sally Spencer Instructor in Diction Antoinette Spies, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. Profes sor of Mathematics Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J. Director of Pius X School of Liturgical Music Mary B. Tenney, R.S.C.J., Ph.D. Professor of History Justine Ward, Mus.D. Professor of Gregorian Chant Elizabeth Weber, R.S.C.J. Professor of German Joseph Wickham, Litt.D. Lecturer in English Anna P. Woollett, R.S.C.J., A.B. Professor of History and Theory of Art Marea Calvo Assistant Librarian Fifteen

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