1865-1880
"All the things of this world are to be used as you need them. They are not to be loved. Let them be like an Inn where you stop for a night; not a piece of land where you settle down. Refresh yourself and move on! You are on a journey."
St. Augustine
Sermon 167,2
During the decade and a half following the Civil War Villanova College
underwent a program of expansion. In 1869 the college built its first
gymnasium and two years later constructed its first waterworks. It was
also in 1871 that Villanova published its first catalogue. In 1872
steam heat and gas lights appeared on campus and a college post office
opened in a new Pennsylvania Railroad station. Then in 1874 Villanova
completed the long anticipated center and west wings of the college Building
(now Alumni Hall) and installed an assembly room (or Dramatic Hall) on the
ground floor of the older east wing. The last construction project of
this period came in 1879 when a fourth story was added to the former
Belle-Air mansion, now the Augustinian Monastery.
Link to Exhibit Items
- Photograph
of two-volume journal
- Reverend Ambrose A.
Mullen, O.S.A.
- Reverend Patrick A.
Stanton, O.S.A., D.D
- Villanova College
in 1872
- Reverend Thomas
Galberry, O.S.A., D.D
- Second Villanova
College Seal
- Reverend Thomas
Middleton, O.S.A., D.D
- Villanova College in 1879
- Villanova faculty,
1865
- The first Villanova College Catalogue
- Elocution and English Award, 26 June 1872
- Monsieur Pierre M. Arnu, A.M.
- Students on steps of the old College
Building
- Jug Book
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