Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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DEDICATION To Reverend Mother Ursula Benziger, R.S.C.J. To Reverend Mother Benziger, Assistant General in Rome, we are proud to dedicate the Centenary issue of the Tower 1947. Long associated with Manhattan- ville as student, Warden, and Superior she has fol¬ lowed the growth of Manhattanville with interest and deep understanding. Her prayerful encouragement is valued by all who have known Manhattanville as she herself knew it for so many years. The best apprecia¬ tion within our power is to try to express in our lives the idea ls of self-sacrifice, loyalty to the ' Church and devotion to the Sacred Heart which Reverend Mother Benziger has taught. 4

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MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART New York City, New York

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THIRTY THOUSAND YESTERDAYS This is the centenary year of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. A century lies behind, a century—and other, unseen centuries,—lie ahead, but the future years, forging through new thoughts, experiments and conclusions, have behind them four generations of practical application, and twenty centuries of faith and knowledge. It is not necessary to ennumerate the events of the last hundred years since the founding of our College in February of 1847, to mention the tragic fire of 1881, or the gradual growth of the campus, to speak of the development of Manhattanville into a college; it is not even of importance to list the many commemorating occa¬ sions of this present centennial year, beginning with the October pageant. What is of value, and what is Manhattanville, are not days marked on a calendar. The days of our one hundred years are thirty thousand, yet their number is insignificant in contrast to the spirit that has been molded within them to form the traditions of the modern Catholic woman. The magnificent crusade of our late president, Mother Grace Dammann, in quest of a closer understanding among the races of the world has brought to our college a hatred of prejudice and a love of mankind. The aim of all of us, as fostered by the ambition of our President, Mother Eleanor O’Byrne, to unite the individual with world affairs through