Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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 Hall. A combined gymnasiunvauditorium is also imperative to remedy two deficiencies in the college 8 equipment. At the present time the college amphitheatre affords room for only two hundred students, it being impossible to assemble the entire student body for addresses. A dining hall to replace the present one is also planned, the building to be part of the proposed quadrangle. An endowment fund of eight hundred thousand dollars is part of the two million three hundred thousand dollar expansion campaign. A separate building will be constructed for use as a swimming pool for students of greater Villanova. The other building on the program is a dormitory. More than half the students live on the campus at the present time. Although Villanova is rich in tradition it lacks material endowment. It does have, however, a “living endowment which is embodied in the twentyTour clerical members of the teaching staff. This “living endowment constitutes only half of the faculty. The other professors and instructors are laymen of ability, conscientiously giving their best to their classes. It is planned, however, with the progress of the campaign to augument the teaching staff so that the number of students per instructor will be very low, thus affording a closer contact between professor and student, an advantage not found in the larger institutions. We feel sure that in a few years there will be a greater Villanova. It will be a larger college and, because of improved facilities, it will be a more efficient college. Not only will it be a college which is just as loyal as it is today and when it first opened its doors in 1843, but Villanova will be doing a great work for the advancement of Catholicism through the training of leaders. The Monastery Fifteen