1910-1920
"Death (birth and death are two certain facts of life)
To be born and to die, the beginning and the end: these are the two facts of our lives By being born we begin our labors; by dying we move on to a future that is uncertain. These two facts we know; they are the two constant truths in this our life."
St. Augustine
Sermon 229 E, 9.1
In January 1912 Villanova lost the venerable but much enlarged Belle-Air
mansion (by then known as Saint Rita's hall) to a disastrous fire. That same year a
new Saint Rita's Hall, for years a seminary building, was begun on the same site. It
was also in 1912 that the college broke ground for Corr Hall, a seminary facility which
was donated by Bernard Corr. In 1915 Villanova introduced a School of Science and a
pre-medical course. World War I brought a Students' Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.)
to campus in (1918) Villanova observed its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, or Diamond
Jubilee. The highlight of the festivities was and address by United States
Vice-President Thomas Riley Marshall at the June commencement. That summer Villanova
launched a summer school program, principally for the benefit of nuns in the Philadelphia
area.
Link to Exhibit Items
- Reverend Edward G. Dohan, O.S.A., LL.D
- President
of the U.S., William Howard Taft
- Invitation
to 67th Annual Commencement
- Old
Mendel Field
- Reverend James J. Dean, O.S.A., M.S., S.T.L.
- Gymnasium
in Main College Hall
- Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.), Villanova College, 1918
- The
much-enlarged Belle Air Mansion
- Saint
Rita's Hall
- Our
Mother of Good Counsel Shrine
- The
Augustinian seminarians
- Stained
glass window in Corr Hall
- Corr
Hall Chapel
- Original
lock and key Belle-Air, the Rudolph mansion
- Augustinian
and lay faculty at Villanova College, 1912
- Ground Breaking for Corr Hall, 4 May 1912
- Corr Hall
- Panorama
of campus buildings
- Villanova
football team, 1915
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- The Villanovan
- Staff
of the Villanovan, 1916-1917
- The Villanovan,
Diamond Jubilee issue
- Villanova
College class of 1918
- Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice-President of the United States
- Commencement
Address: Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice-President of the United States
- Invitation, Diamond Jubilee
Commencement, 11 June 1918
- Third Villanova College Seal
- Medallion, University College
- Villanova
Varsity Football, 1919
- Cardinal Mercier of Belgium
- Villanova College faculty, 1917
- Villanova
College, 1915
- Saint
Rita's Hall Chapel, 1918
- Villanova
College class of 1920
- Engineering
students in the Machine Shop in the 1920's
- Engineering
students and faculty on the edge of Mendel Field, 1927
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