Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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With the completion of registration ond the commencement of classes, other lines disappeared from the campus scene, but the line entering the resident dining-hall is a constant occurrence. Three times a day the main corridor of Mendel Hall is filled for nearly its entire length with waiting diners. To the veterans, the chow line is an old familiar story. Food shortages and labor difficulties presented a serious handicap in the early port of the year, but these ore now less acute. An additional difficulty is the fact that setting the lunch hour has become o matter of finding the most convenient time on each student's schedule. This is one of the foremost difficulties in ar- ranging for meetings of clubs and other extra-curricular activi- ties, which formerly took advantage of the noon hour, when the entire student body was free. The Veterans' Administration maintains a fully-staffed office in Mendel Hall to take core of the routine involved in handling the affairs of the many veteran students. Above. George A. Horris, campus representative for the Veterans, is consulted by a student concerning an overdue subsistence chock. Seventy-six percent of the total enrollment ore veterans, twenty percent of whom are married. Room registration presented a difficult problem for Father McKee, whose tosk it was to arrange housing for the 969 resident students. Three and four men were assigned to rooms in the various resi- dence halls that had formerly accommodated two. Rooms in Simp- son Hall, once devoted entirely to Seminars, were converted to temporary living quarters. 20

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AND A PDOIl ENROLLMENT Clossroom facilities are crowded as never bofore. and class hours run continuously from eight in the morning until eight in the evening. Students leaving the campus in the early afternoon at the completion of their classes frequently meet a group of commuters com- ing up from the railroad station with books and lunch bag. ready to begin their doy of study. Construction of a temporary building, which will provide an additional sixteen classrooms and six offices for faculty, will help to alleviate the overcrowded condition. The resulting smaller closses will tend to bring bock the smoll-college otmosphere of pre-war Villanova.

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Although most of tho 977 non-resident students orrivo by bus, train, or trolley, many use their own automobiles. Parking lots across tho Pike from the Chapel and opposite the Field House, formerly almost deserted, ore now fillod to capacity. Parking on the campus is forbidden to student motorists, as all available space is reserved for faculty automobiles. Other facilities for the day-hops ore equally overburdened. Get- ting a milk shoke or cup of coffee in Louie's Pie Shop is now a difficult tosk, because irregular studont lunch hours cause it to bo crowded throughout the day. Materials for a new and larger studont restaurant hove been obtained, and construction will be complotod for the fall semester.