Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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'8921a 9 7 N-«.'=X„uru:',oih - oS:z 7p'r Lrcz:r -■ - fn 1936. °‘,ico fr°m 1920-17 p G- Doh n • FaU ' Dohon dl.d THE SPARK i monthly publication devoted to the interests of the students in the Villanova School of Technology Price. 10 Cents VOL. I. NO. 1 MAY. 1913 THE STAFr Editor....................James J. O’Brien.’13 (C. Raymond Larkin,’14 Associate Editors . . j joll„ A. O’Leary. ’15 Business Manager . . Martin J. McLaughlin, ’14 FOREWORD. Throughout the several years that have elapsed since the Villanova School of Technology sent forth its first graduates into the world of practical experience there have been repeated demands for an official organ that shall kee the Alumni in closer touch with Alma Mater and at the same time arouse a spirit of enthusi- To inspire this desire and to enkindle these efforts to even greater intensity is the aim and purpose of The Spark.” We hope to keep our readers in close touch with everything that concerns the wel- fare of the college. From month to month we shall record the progress made in the Engineering Department, the success of our alumni, the activities of our under- graduates. Any happening that seems to us worthy of record will appear in our columns and we look to our friends to keep us posted in current events that may be of interest to the aspiring engineer. To the undergraduates The Spark” S3 Wa not until tho FOr nn” k'ZlyT'i iin'er,,t of' ? CO ’ n »n. rin9 School 1——

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CONSTITUTION P' b AWS ▼ULASDYA C0LL16S (kntra OaOANIZED, JUNE. 1876. PHILADELPHIA : D. J. OALLAOH», PR-, 403 DILLWVN STRUT. 1878. Below: In left inset Is Very Roy. M. J. Goraqhly. O.S.A.. the Provincial from 1902 to 1914. In right lnsot Is J. Stanley Smith. ’93. former Alumni President and a present college trustee. The sixty first annual banquet of the Vlllanova Alumni Association, held at the Hotel Walton in Philadelphia, brouqhl the announcement that Mr. Bernard Corr had given the college SI00.000 for the erection of a new provincial scholasticate.

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President Taft and Noted Guests at Villanovas Commencement TAFT SPEAKS AT oi m ' 0l . oo CoWw uut»1 ttCfOT y at 0»a SATURDAY. JUNE EIGHTEEN ' •« ASU TS «P»»» S'- u 0 HIS UCtaWCT Will!AH HIWAID taft. I Prr U«at U tl Vmtr4 Stain. PrnUtaf In 1910. the President oi the United State». William Howard Taft, conferred dogroos upon the graduating stu- dents and received the degree of Doctor oi Jurisprudence. In his address, delivered in the collogo auditorium after tho conferring of degrees. President Taft paid a high tribute to Pope Leo XII, to the Roman Catholic Church, and to its religious orders and their educational activities. He declared that, as a result of the amicable religious settlement after the war with Spain, religious tolerance had gained a firmer foothold in the United Statos, and that the difference between creeds and denominations was being gradually moulded Into a union of Christian interests. Before luncheon attended DaSilva. President tlnlans; Reyburn the commencement exercises President Taft had In tho college refectory. The luncheon was by Archbishop Ryan oi Philadelphia; Bishop a Portugese prelate; Fr. DeLurey. Villanova's . Fr. Geraghty. American Provincial of tho Augus- Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania: and Mayor of Philadelphia.