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THE VILLANOVAN 9
clergymen were present. Archbishop Ryan pre- of Rosemont, Pa., civil engineers; and John J.
sided. The religious celebration took place on Smith of Altoona, electrical en'gineer.
Sunday, July 2, 1893. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Thursday, October 17, 1907, Rt. Rev. William
McGovern, bishop of Harrisburg, celebrated A. Jones, O. S, A., consecrated the Villanova
Solemn Pontifical Mass and Vespers. This was church. Dr. Delurey was succeeded in 1910 by
the first time such services took place in the his- Rev. Edward G. Dohan, S. T. L., O. S. A.
tory of Villanova. The jubilee sermon was On January 10, 1912, between two and three
preached by Rev. F. X. McGowan, O. S. A., o'clock while the clerics were at office in the
rector of St. Augustine's, Lansingburgh, N. Y. monastery chapel, St. Rita's Hall took fire and
Most Rev. P. J. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadel- was almost totally destroyed. It was soon re-
phia, assisted at Vespers in the evening. Rev. placed by a new building. In 1912 the corner-
Charles F. Kelly, D.D., of Towanda, Pa., an stone was laid and the chapel was blessed on the
alumnus of 1843, delivered an address on Chris- feast of St. Augustine, August 28.
tian Education. The Archbishop also spoke. During Father Dohan's administration the
Father McEvoy was succeeded as president of new college hall was opened. Many improve-
Villanova by Rev. Francis J. McShane. At the ments were also made in the laboratories. A
provincial chapter July, 1894, Father McShane two-year pre-medical course was introduced,
was elected, a new board of directors chosen, It is designed to meet the requirements for
and the faculty increased. Many improve- admission to the study of medicine. It is apments
were made under the new president, proved by the Bureau of Professional Educa-
There was a notable advance in the scientific tion of the State of Pennsylvania. There is
department in the way of new appliances and extensive work in Chemistry, Biology, and
improved apparatus. Physiology.
In 1895, Rev. L. A. Delurey became presi- On May 4, 1912, work was started on a new
dent. During his administration Villanova made building for the Professed and the Novices of the
great strides. In 1899 the present imposing order. It is a memorial to Bernard Corr.
structures (College and Monastery) were started. Father Dohan was succeeded in 1917 by one
The work was finished and the buildings occu- whose name had been joined with Villanova's
pied in 1901. On June 23, 1901, they were progress many years. Father Dean did not
blessed. come to us a stranger. Since 1893, with the
The old Monastery was now made into a exception of three years, he has been continuhouse
for the postulants of the order and opened ally associated with the College in one capacity
December 8, 1902, under the patronage of St. or another. He has been Professor, Prefect of
Rita of Cassia. The old College became an Studies, and Dean of the School of Technology,
academy for younger boys—Tolentine Academy. His ability as an orator, his attainments in the
In 1905, Villanova, realizing the need of men field of science and mathematics, his business
trained in the practical work of applied science, ability and his understanding of boys, assure us
opened a school of technology and instituted that our Alma Mater is in safe and energetic
courses in civil, electrical, and mechanical engi- hands.
neering. The thirteen years of her labors in this Villanova's Seventy-fifth Anniversary is a
field have shown conclusively that Villanova did great day for us, when we view the past. Let
not overstep the bounds of her ability in under- us not lose sight of the future. If our Alma
taking to develop trained, efficient, technical Mater's history has been so glorious through
men to take their places among the leaders of the whole-souled labors of a few, what should
industry. At the sixty-eighth annual commence- it not be in the years to come when the memment
June 15, 1909, Villanova graduated her bers of the alumni join their forces and vie one
first engineers. Lewis Nixon, of New York, with another in helping along a great work for
naval constructor and ship-builder, delivered the God, our Church and our Country! May the
address. The first graduates were John A. work of those who have gone before us inspire
White of Williamsport, Pa., Edward J. Kirsch us to greater, nobler efforts!