Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL Officers DANIEL P. McLAUGHLIN—Chairman JAMES TRAINOR—Vice-Chairman THOMAS A. JENKINS—Secrefary Members Athletic Association—GEORGE D. CASEY Viilanovan—CHARLES P. GAFFNEY Departmental JOHN P. KEFFER Seniors FRANCIS E. MARTIN JOHN J. FORD THOMAS B. CROSS JAMES P. O LEARY PHILIP A. HOLLAND Juniors CLETUS A. SEAVER EDWARD V. DUFFY Sophomores JOSEPH P. GIBBONS HERBERT J. MADDEN Freshman THOMAS J. McNEE

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The Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of Villanova was cele- brated in 1892. A new board of directors was chosen and the faculty enlarged. Improved apparatus and many new appliances were in- stalled in the Scientific Department. In 1901 the present Main College Hall and Monastery was built. A Technology School was opened in 1905, and in 1912 was introduced a Pre-Medical School. About this time St. Rita’s Hall was almost totally destroyed by fire. A new building was immediately con- structed. On May 4, 1912, work was begun on Corr Hall. The old Tolentine Academy was altered in 1920 and dedicated to the Alumni. The Commerce and Finance School was introduced in 1921. The year 1925 not only marks the eighty-third anniversary of our beloved Alma Mater, but it also witnessed the greatest realization of a greater Villanova. A new building was added to the already im- posing group which then graced the campus. It is a new Dormitory for the College and is of the English Collegiate type of architecture, a long well-balanced, three-proportioned mass set on a low-walled terrace over a gently sloping lawn. The building is “H” shape in plan with a long central wing, thus giving to every room abundant light and air, and affording extended views. In the east wing of the New Dormitory is a library which will accommodate about fifty thousand volumes. This new building will add greatly to the splendid appearance of Villanova’s campus. It is modern in every detail and compares favorably with those of any other College in the country. It was formally dedicated on October 9th, the Very Reverend C. M. Dris- coll, O. S. A., Assistant General, presiding at the ceremony.

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To the Members of the Class of 1925 The present 1925 “Belle Air” is your “Book of Memories.” It chronicles the events of your college years and commemorates your achievements. It is a treasury of precious memories with names, faces and scenes with which through intimate association you have become familiar, and to which you have grown attached, each sugges- tive of happy moments in your college life. The years that have gone you cannot live again. Only in memory can they survive the vicissitudes of time. The 1925 “Belle Air perpetuates them. You have forged another link in the continuous chain of Villa- nova traditions. As you have received from those that have gone be- fore. so now you transmit to those that are to come the lessons and ideals of honor, loyalty, zeal and devotion in the cause of church and country, which you have imbibed at Villanova. As you con these pages and memory recalls familiar scenes, may it likewise serve to remind you of the high ideals to which, as sons of Villanova you have consecrated yourselves, and rekindle in your hearts the same spirit of generous devotion which you now pledge to all that is good and true. Hitherto you have been hearers of the Word. Be ye henceforth doers thereof!