Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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4- S» In tho following pages wo present gonora! and particular views of the college campus which are intended to give some idea of the physical set-up of Villanova. As the College exists today, there is little left except the terrain to remind one of tho fact that it was originally a farm. A series of disasters, as well as the natural expansion due to growth in time, have combined to change the face of old Belle Air. What was the original home of the Rudolph family from whom the Augustinians acquired tho estate, burned down in 1914. Ono wing of old Alumni dates back to 1849. Of the old collego building orected in 1902 only the back wing of Mendel Hall remains, fire having consumed the rest in 1928. But fire and age have done nothing to keep Villanova from pressing always onward and upward. 7

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(Booh Om.............................7 THE COLLEGE in its physical aspects . . . buildings and suburban landscape. (Book JlVO..........................17 FACULTY AND STUDENTS . . . Priest . . . layman . . . seaman .. . marine .. . seminarian. Book Jfauui.........................49 THE SENIORS . . . graduates of 1944 . . . three sections . . . February . . . June . . . October. Book JojUA..........................73 ACTIVITIES . . . religious . . . social'. . literary . . . athletic . . . varsity and intramural. 6

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I' t' Jkft UUlanova QampuA No more ideal location for an educational institution can be found than Villanova's. Six miles west of the city boundary of Philadelphia on the Lincoln highway, the College combines all the advantages of healthy country life, while having at hand the immediate advantages of city convenience. Acquired by the Augustinians in 1842, its 160 acres are now one of the show places of Philadelphia's famous Main Line long the epitome of landscaped beauty. None of the noise or hubbub or the consequent annoyances of a manufacturing world disturbs the industrious student as he prepares himself here to enter the world. Location is not the least factor in the success story of Villanova. She is by rail or bus just one half hour from the center of Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Railroad's main line runs through her campus and the well known Paoli Local has a station stop on her grounds. From the 69th Street Terminal in the city, runs the Philadelphia and Western cars, every ten minutes; and they, too, stop on the campus. A bus line, routed over U. S. 30 (Lancaster Pike), affords half hour service to her door. In normal days, Villanova's full time students are almost one-half non-resident. The locality is named after the college, for the college was founded long before the Main Line was anything but a sparsely settled farm district. The college takes its name from its patron Saint, Thomas of Villanova, himself an Augustinian and a patron of learning. The original Villanova is a town in Spain, Villanueva, the college name being a Latinized form. 8