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ia OLLEGE Scout Visits Main Line
i Schools” is a caption seen recently in
i a “Main Line paper.. No, not out for
? athletes—but for prospective students! And
. that was a well-known professor from a famed
+ university. The story goes like this.
The crowded college has ceased. to exist.
The depression, beginning in the Fall of 1929
and culminating, we hope, in the present
financial crisis, has in a period of three years
slowly but determinedly drained the colleges
of excess students, and actually eaten in stand-
ard enrollments. Colleges and universities,
who during pre-depression days broadened out
liberally to. accommodate ever-increasing en-
rollments, today find themselves with over-
expanded facilities and consequently with
excess overhead. .
STRESS WILL CONTINUE
Student enrollments are down in virtually
every college and university in the United
«States, a situation which educators are agreed
ill continue for some years. Months of
“economic stress have now shown that college
men. have but little edge or advantage in
| periods of financial depression over men who
tare not college-trained. Hence, it will follow,
i(very likely, that college education in the
{future will be based more and more on the
¥“fuller life" theory; which means that fewer
émen and women will attend institutions of
t collegiate rank,
een
s} ‘Thoroughly cognizant, then, of the signif-
‘jcance of events,- college and university
‘ administrators throughout the country are
it ugurating, to put the facts baldly, “cam-
\Gpaigns for students,” many actually lowering
fentrance requirements in a serious way. The
Ulargest universities are directly and competi-
jstively “selling” their respective institutions.
io VILLANOVA’S NEED
d, Heretofore, no great or consistent effort
, has been made to bring Villanova’s message
tto a.large number of prospective students.
‘,“If we are. to maintain our present reduced
{ student body,” said the Rev. E. V. Stanford,
<0.S.A.; president of the college, in a recent
\interview, “the message which Villanova has
s"to give must be delivered to a vastly wider
Neection’ of the now less-interested market.
‘Everyone who knows Villanova must talk
Villanova; and herein lies a great alumni
> spportunity, If every alumnus would take
t upon himself to interest just one prospec-
tive student, the reduced enrollment problem
would not affect Villanova. An incalculable
amount of good can be done by alumni, if
} they will talk Villanova to their friends. The
+ same situation would obtain in their cases
} as that with a nearby school official who was
truly amazed when the quality of Villanova’s
equipment and courses were brought to his
attention,
“We stand ready to send catalogs, descrip-
interested,” >
tive bulletins, and- information to anyone ~
Alumni New o °
COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DOWN.
Alumni Asked to Interest Prospective Students in Enrollment at Villanova;
Decreased Student Bodies Will Continue for Some Time, Say Educators :
ALUMNI BALL
Grand Success
Under the chairmanship of Edgar F.
Connery, ‘25, the General Alumni Ball held
yin the new gymnasium at Villanova on the
eve of Washington's birthday, was a great
success both socially and financially. With
more than 500 couples in attendance and
decorations in festive style, the dance was
beyond doubt the most brilliant staged at the
school for many years past. It was certainly
the largest that the new gym has seen,
The Alumni Association's Board of Gow
ernors want to take this opportunity to ex-
press publicly their sincere gratitude to all
the alumni who contributed in any way and
especially to Mr. Connery and his committee
for their splendid work.
- PROF. McGEEHAN
Shows Improvement
Professor Charles A. McGeehan, ‘12, who
has been confined to his home since~ last
summer, is showing slow, but steady im-
provement. He has been able during the
past few weeks to take short walks about his
-home, occasionally being able to go for short
drives.
Mr. McGeehan, in addition to his duties
as professor of Electrical Engineering, was
Graduate Manager of Athletics, and Treasurer
of the Alumni Association, He is glad to
receive letters and personal visits from his
friends at. 1536 Powell Street, Norristown.
VISION PRODUCED
In Lawrence and New York
“Vision,” the Passion Play written by the
Rev. John F, Burns, O.S.A
former professor of history at Villanova and |
present rector of St.
Lawrence, is
Mary’s Church,
again being produced ‘in
_ Lawrence and New York during the Lenten
season,
The play is being given every Sunday
afternoon’ and evening during Lent at Se.
Peter Claver’s. Institute, Brooklyn, by Father
Quinn's Claver Players. The play will be
produced in Lawrence at the Warner Theatre,
under the personal direction of Father Burns,
April 9 and 10.
“Father Burns, a professor for 17 years, re-
ceived his assignment to parish work in
Lawrence just before the mid-years at Villa-
nova. In addition to his work as an historian,
Father Burns is well-known as a playright
and producer. Among: his repertoire are
“Every Freshman,” . a. musical .”. comedy;
“Destiny,” a.drama of Lest-Paradise:**Colim- -
bus,” a musical and .dramatic “pageant; and=,
“Constancy,” a Catholic’ “pageant-drama of
the American Revoli:tion staged as a feature
of the Philadelphia: Sesqui-Centennial Cele-
bration. os. ot .
“Vision,”. his best-known + was
written afd, first produced in 1924, * being.
given regulav-performances “until” 1928 by
student casts in many Massachusetts, Pennsyl-
vania, and New. Jersey cities,
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rodiction; was ~
The President 7
‘SPEAKS.... .
ALUMNI News wants
a letter and a photo.
The latter is easy. The
“bookcase is full of
them—all sizes and vin-
tages. And if the -
Editor wants photos of
my classmates, they are
also in the same book-
case. The letter, how-
ever, is something else
» again. :
As, I recall. the re-
quest of our estimable
secretary, he desires an
“John T. Coan
open -letter from the ~
President of the Association—open and to
the point. Well, at various times I have
_ been sorely tempted to burst into’ public print °
under the guise of “An Interested . Citizen”
or “One Who Wants to Know™ or again -
“A Lover of Fair Play.” Up to the present
writing, the “urge” stage has never been
passed and it doesn’t seem quite fair.to expose.
me at this late date as an open letter writer.
As far as being to the point is concerned, I -
will be brief and attempt to be more accurate
than the young man who, ‘in last week’s
issue of the “Villanovan,” had Charley
McGeehan playing a_ starring batting role
against Princeton in 1917, The recent fires
at Villanova have certainly raised havoc with
the. records.
issue of the undergraduate publication—
which brings me to one point. .I wonder if:
it is possible to interest the members of the
Association in their own periodical? We
are making a start today with this issue and
confidently hope that the interest will be
maintained. It can be done! :
An alumni paper, however, is only one of
the ends that your governing board at the
present time is attempting to accomplish.
_ Villanova needs us—as ambassadors in our
respective communities. We need each other.
The friendships. formed in undergraduate
years are valuable. We have common inter-
ests. I know of no better way to cement
these common aims- and purposes than
through the medium of our own publication.
‘There is no better rallying ground than. Vil-
lanova. . If we. must -have a slogan, we
might well adopt—“Back to Villanova!”
May I take this opportunity to thank all
who have worked so untiringly and: unsel-
fishly in the interests of the Association?
The results of their efforts speak for them-
selves. . :
Yours, for a larger student body, more and
better attended social ‘functions, .continued ,
success in the field of sports, an interested ~
alumni body, in a word—‘Let’s Get Back to
Villanova!”
15) Joun T. Coan, “19. -
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Villanova - Penn
April, 1st
-- “FRANKLIN FIELD
The Editor of the
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