Seton Hall University - Galleon Yearbook (South Orange, NJ)

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Seton Hall Building in Paterson The new extension of Seton Hall in Paterson is the latest in the University’s dynamic extension program. Operating during the daytime it offers the usual courses in the arts and sciences, business, and education. Unlike Jersey City and Newark, it has an R.O.T.C. program which is closely affiliated with the campus unit in South Orange, and even has its own basketball team. The building has undergone extensive renovations to make it more suitable for academic use, and will include an excellent library which is now being assembled.

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University College Building, Jersey City The University College in Jersey City was inaugurated in 1937, and holds its classes in this building at 3055 Hudson Boulevard. It offers opportunities to both men and women who wish to pursue either degree or non-degree programs, and courses are given in the arts and sciences, business, education, and nursing. Graduate courses are available in all these fields except nursing. Among many other features of the Jersey City center is its rapidly growing library of 5000 volumes.

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Medical Center in Jersey City To relieve suffering, to aid the injured, to cure the sick,” these are the things that every young physician pledges his life to fulfill. From the time of Hipocratus to the era of atomic medicine young men have listened to the cries of humanity and have experienced the anguish of helplessness. They have felt a calling as strong and as loud as the bugler’s shrill call to duty. It is for these men that Seton Hall will light the lamp of medical knowledge. For years the otherwise progressive state of New Jersey ignored the problem of the lack of a medical school in the Garden State. O, they can go out of the state for it if they want to become doctors,” spoke the more vocal of the short- sighted. But as the years passed, fewer and fewer of the rising tide of applicants for a medical educat ion were being accepted by out of state schools. It soon became evident that something had to be done. But it was not until the fall of 1953 that Seton Hall University made the momentous announcement of the opening of the first medical and dental school in the state of New Jersey. Blasted out of its complacency, the state