Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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« mo» oH»oc W« °n 1 , B.,„o.a c..' ''' 9 l9l2. W.tM« i»» on»». »«« P ’' H«r« wo con readily »•• futuro Auguitinion» following tho doily ichodulo of thoir ouitoro but colorful lifo. Tho ro»ult of hoir woll foundod training will bottor proparo thorn for thoir ttronuout future. ST. MARY’S HALL On the campus, but not of the campus may well be the best way to describe the Seminary Deportment of Villanovo. Actually, it is a college within a college. For here, the young men who are pursuing a course of study in preparation for the priesthood ore separated from the secular hub-bub of Villanovo College life. The center of the seminary is situated in St. Mary's Hall, one of Villanova's vine-covered halls. Adequate classrooms, re- fectory. common room, and individual quarters for the seminarians ore found in this building along with the seminary chapel. Originally known as Corr Hall, it wos buili- as a contribution of Mr. Henry Corr in 1914 to be used as a building for the education of young men for Holy Orders. Once on the outskirts of the campus, it now finds itself quite in the center of things. Even with the new librory on one side, Austin Hall on the other. Alumni Hall in front and the Pie Shoppe in bock. St. Mary's still maintains the air of withdrawal from the world and emphasis on the spiritual life that is demanded of the seminarians.

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FEDIGAN HALL Located at the west end of the campus. Fedigan is the college's most recently constructed modern hall. An imposing stone structure, fireproofed throughout. Fedi- gon was built in 1930. during Father Griffin's term as president of the college. It was one of the units erected during a gigantic construction program initiated after College Hall was burned in 1928. Father Fedigan. in whose honor the building was named, was president of Villanova College in 1878 and for the two years follow- ing. This hall is fovored by its 128 upperclassmen because of its location on the campus. It is near the classrooms and the labs, yet far enough from the traveled part of the campus to give it the peace and quiet conducive to study and relaxation. The older Villanovons will recoil the site of (he tennis courts along Spring Mill Road, where, after the fire of ‘28. this upper clast dormitory that houses one hundred and twenty eight students, wot erected. The hall it named after Father Fedigan, who first envisioned the greater Villanova.

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ST. RITA’S HALL One of the smaller buildings at Villanovo, St. Rita's Hall serves as an annex to St. Mary's in the seminary department. Its location close by the main building allows free and easy access to the seminary classrooms and other facilities, and yet the private rooms provided for the seminarians allows the solitude and quiet neces- sary for study and contemplation. It is in the passage back and forth between St. Rita's and St. Mary's that the seminarians come into ot least visual contact with the student body of the college. An early rising student may see the block-habited seminarians on their way to daily Mass and Office at the chapel in St. Mary's Hall. During the war. St. Rita's wos pressed into service to house some of tho civilian students but in 1946 it was returned to its original use. The Daughters of the Most Holy Redeomer. a community of Sisters who have the core of the seminary kitchen are also quartered in St. Rita's. Thor it olwayt o moment of relaxation in the life of the neophyte Auguttinian. The above it olwayt. to the outtider, a typical scene.