Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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F C U I. T Y REV. FRANCIS X. BOYLE. O.S.A. Religion REV. JOSEPH I. BOYLE. O.S.A. Education REV. JOHN E. BRESNAHAN. O.S.A. Classics LEO F. BROWN Education HARRY S. BUECHE Engineering Library rosoarch. becoming a mor© vital lactor in modern education, drivos those students from tho playing Hold outdoors to tho Held oi mental work, sooking knowledge found between tho musty covers of books, magazines and encyclo- pedias. Students in thoir thirst for knowledge dust oH forgotton corners of the library seeking information to complete a paper in Biology, an engineering report or an economic theory. 25

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THi: FACULTY AMI THE SCHUDLS Since the founding of Villanova college in 1842, when the faculty consisted of only nine members, Villanova has maintained an enviable tradition in her system of pedagogy. It has alv ays been the aim of the administrators to secure the finest available material for her teaching staff. From the numer- ically few men of the first year, the faculty has been augmented with the addition of new schools, and the increase in the student enrollment, until at present it numbers eighty members. The Villanova spirit cannot be better emphasized than through the men on its faculty, many of whom were former Villanova students. Each instructor inserts into the minds of his students that distinct individuality which he has acquired, but the faculty taken as a whole produce the well developed stu- dent, worthy of the name Villanova Gentleman.” In order to make it possible for the student to obtain a well balanced cur- riculum, the college has endeavored to offer as wide a choice of subjects as is feasible within the students particular field of study. It is in this manner that the graduate engineer, for example, is a combination of the professor of religion, the instructor in psychology, the teacher of the sciences—just as he is a product of the various departments of engineering. Each instructor both lay and clerical is equipped with extensive training for use in his chosen field of teaching. The clerical body of the faculty with few exceptions have received their collegiate training at Villanova. Most of their graduate work is completed at Catholic University, although some of them have continued advanced studies, and received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Gregorian College in Rome. Wurtzburg in Germany, Oxford in England, George Washington University, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rennselaer Polytechnic, and Fordham University. These are but a few of the institutions in which the clerical members of the faculty have pursued their respective studies. The lay instructors also play a prominent role in the teaching life at Villanova. Graduate work was completed in such institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, Iowa State, the University of Illinois. Notre Dame. Northwestern, University of Chicago, Cornell, George- town, Harvard, Dartmouth, Wisconsin and others. LT. H. C. ABRAHAM Naval Science and Tactics EMIL AMELOTTI Mathematics and Physics GEORGE H. AUTH Engineering REV. JOSEPH A. BARTLEY. O.3.A. Business Administration FRANCIS J. BLANCHARD Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 24

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F CULTY LT. N. CRAIG Naval Sclonce and Tactics REV. JOHN H. CRAWFORD. O.S.A. Mathematics and Physics REV. FRANCIS A. DIEHL. O.S.A. Psychology