| 1925 |
The Library is located in the Liberal Arts Building.
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| 1925 |
Fifty students receive degrees at Marywood College.
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| 1925 |
The Secretarial Club is started to further the cause of Commercial studies and to raise funds for Departmental equipment. Also in place at this time are a Civics Club, the Student Government Board, the Immaculata Circle, and the Jeanne D'Arc Cercle.
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| 1925 |
The Teresian Drama Society produces Polyxena.
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| 1925 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Education approves Marywood's Commercial Education curriculum.
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| 1926 |
The Scranton School Board adds Marywood College to its list of approved institutions whose academic credits would be accepted from teachers in Scranton for wage increments, April.
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| 1926 |
Ground is broken for a Residence Hall, which will eventually be called O'Reilly Hall (now Regina Hall), in honor of the Most Reverend Thomas C. O'Reilly, third Bishop of Scranton, September 24.
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| 1926 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Education approves Marywood's Music Education and Supervision curriculum.
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| 1926 |
The Class of 1926 publishes The Graduate Book as a substitute for the Tourmaline.
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| 1926 |
Eighty-one students receive degrees at Marywood College.
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| 1926 |
The Carriage House, a structure present when the campus was purchased, is converted into a two-story Science building. |
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| 1926 |
Ninety-four students are enrolled in the freshman class, and the undergraduate population includes students from eleven states and Canada, Fall Semester.
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| 1926 |
The Reverend Joseph Boyle, first Chaplain of the College, dies, September 29. He is succeeded by the Reverend Thomas McHugh.
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| 1926 |
The Teresian Drama Society produces Anastasia.
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| 1927 |
The grading system incorporates "plus" categories, including an A+ for the 98 to 100 range.
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| 1927 |
The Teresian Drama Society changes its name to the St. Teresa Dramatic Society.
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| 1927 |
Courses are available in sixteen fields.
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Honors courses are offered in ten departments.
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For the first time, the total enrollment at Marywood reaches five hundred.
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| 1928 |
Marywood's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Icon, a gift of the Redemptorist Congregation in Rome, is dedicated in O'Reilly Hall, February 12. It is later enshrined in marble in the back of the Oratory of Christ the King. A translation of the latin inscription reads:
Patrick Murray
of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
Superior General and Major Rector [1909-1947]
We hold in faith and we testify that this image of the Blessed Virgin Mary faithfully appears to be from the ancient imprint and a clear original under the title of Perpetual Help in the Church of St. Matthew in Meralana of the City among others in honor of St. Alphonsus Mary Liguori venerated in Esquiliae
Dedicated on the 12th day of the month of February, in the year 1928.
Number 5086
P. Ferd J. Lutz, C.S.S.R.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Icon |
| 1928 |
The first annual Play Tournament is held, May.
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| 1928 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Education approves Marywood's Pre-Law curriculum.
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| 1928 |
Bishop Thomas C. O'Reilly dedicates the Residence Hall named in his honor, September 17.
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O'Reilly Hall |
| 1928 |
Through the second amendment to its charter, Marywood becomes empowered to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, October 19.
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| 1928 |
Mother M. Germaine O'Neil, I.H.M., Marywood's first President, dies, December 13.
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| 1928 |
The Dining Hall opens in O'Reilly Hall, December 17.
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O'Reilly Hall Dining Room |
| 1928 |
The Reverend Daniel Lord, S.J., visits the campus and establishes the Student Spiritual Council.
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Students move into O'Reilly Hall. |
Student Room, O'Reilly Hall, 1947 |
| 1929 |
Marywood's President, Mother Casimir, dies after a short illness, February 12.
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| 1929 |
Mother Mary William Craig, I.H.M., becomes the third President of Marywood College. |
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| 1929 |
The Bay Leaf wins a second-prize gold medal in the Scholastic Press Association competition at Columbia University and also merits All-American Honors at the University of Minnesota. The latter is the highest award of the National Scholastic Press Association, composed of seven hundred member newspapers, magazines, and periodicals.
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| 1929 |
The Eastern Pennsylvania Oratorical Contest is held at Marywood College, and Helen Butler of Marywood wins second place with her address entitled "The Constitution."
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| 1929 |
A small chapel opens on the second floor of O'Reilly Hall, May 23. It is called "The Oratory of Christ the King."
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| 1929 |
Father Daniel Lord speaks at the commencement ceremonies.
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| 1929 |
A bronze statue of Christ the King is dedicated on campus.
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William Pearson, florist at Marywood College, displays a rare plant known as the Night Blooming Cereus (Phllocactus Phyllanthordas). Mr. Pearson, a noted horticulturist, has produced some rare species of plants that are always on display in the College's greenhouses.
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| 1930 |
The Tourmaline earns an honor rating from the National Scholastic Press Association in the category of colleges with more than five hundred students.
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The Hoban-Lucas Gallery opens in a large room on the mezzanine of the Liberal Arts Building.
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| 1931 |
Mother M. Josepha Hurley, I.H.M., becomes the fourth President of Marywood College.
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Mother M. Josepha Hurley, I.H.M. |
| 1931 |
The Dramatic Society stages a production of The Upper Room.
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| 1931 |
The Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, then of Catholic University and later a television speaker of legendary appeal, delivers the commencement address.
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| 1931 |
Bishop O'Reilly selects Marywood as the site of a Eucharistic Congress celebrating the fifteenth centenary of the Church Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. The event draws thousands to the campus to participate in the services. The Apostolic Delegate of Pope Pius XI attends, as do many bishops, monsignors, priests, and members of various religious orders. Faculty and students of Marywood College and Seminary and also of College Misericordia and St. Thomas College are involved, and the Congress affirms Marywood as a vital center of Roman Catholicism in the United States.
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| 1931 |
The former governor of New York State, the Honorable Alfred Smith—accompanied by musical-comedy star Eddie Dowling—visits Marywood College.
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| 1931 |
A unit of the Catholic College Student Mission Crusade is organized to promote worldwide charitable activities.
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| 1931 |
Finishing touches are applied to O'Reilly Hall.
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| 1932 |
The Reverend Joseph Griffin is appointed Chaplain of Marywood College, succeeding Father McHugh.
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| 1932 |
The athletic field is enlarged and the tennis courts and hockey field are laid out.
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| 1932 |
The Science and Home Economics Departments celebrate Arbor Day by planting in the ravine 250 wildflowers of the varieties that had flourished on the campus before being displaced by buildings.
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| 1932 |
Percy Grainger, the noted pianist, presents a recital at Marywood.
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| 1933 |
The College rents a house on College Avenue to be used as a Practice House for Home Economics students.
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| 1933 |
Martha's Cottage is renovated.
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| 1933 |
Marywood awards its first honorary Master's degree to Margaret McGroarty Murrin, June. At eighty-six, Ms. Murrin is the oldest living alumna of the I.H.M. academies, having graduated from St. Joseph's in Susquehanna County in 1866.
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| 1933 |
New roads, tennis courts, a hockey field, and an outdoor theater are constructed.
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| 1934 |
Marywood compares the current achievements of its students for the first time with those of other institutions by means of the National Sophomore Testing Program.
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| 1934 |
Sister M. Sylvia Morgan, I.H.M., chairperson of the Science Department from its inception, is admitted as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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| 1930s |
Marywood earns accreditation by the American Dietetic Association; the Pennsylvania State Board of Law Examiners; the Bureau of Professional Education (for the pre-medical course); the American Council of Education; the Association of American Colleges; the Carnegie Association for the Advancement of Teaching; and the Catholic Educational Association of Pennsylvania. Marywood also becomes a member of the National Catholic Educational Association and an associate member of the Association of University Women.
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| 1930s |
Students hear lectures by Thomas Finnegan, State Superintendent of Education; Cornelia Otis Skinner, author-actress; the Reverend Francis (later Cardinal) Spellman; and Dom Vernon Moore, a Benedictine scholar.
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| 1930s |
The Liberal Arts building is repainted, refloored, and equipped with new desks. Its former assembly hall is divided into three sections and devoted to classes in ancient and modern languages. The area of the Art Department is refurbished, and the Drama Department space is converted into a "little theater" facility.
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| 1930s |
The English Department establishes the Beta chapter of Lambda Iota Tau, the international honor society for students of literature.
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| 1930s |
Clubs relating to majors include the St. Luke's Art Society and a Library Science Club.
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| 1930s |
Der Marienwald Verein and El Circulo Espanol de Santa Teresa consist of the students of German and Spanish, and Il Circolo Dante Alighieri and the Italian Club represent students of Italian, the former expressly for those of Italian descent.
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| 1930s |
An International Relations Club forms and hosts at Marywood a conference of the Catholic Students' Peace Foundation of the Middle Atlantic States.
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| 1930s |
Marywood students attend a talk given by Rear Admiral Richard Byrd at the Masonic Temple. There they meet the Reverend Bernard Hubbard, S.J., also an arctic explorer, and the members of the Secretarial Club become his unofficial and official patrons. Under the guidance of Sister M. St. Agnes Moran, I.H.M., they sponsor his numerous appearances on campus in lecture/film dramatizations of his experiences in the remote polar regions as both secular trailblazer and religious missionary. The club eventually and painstakingly types an Eskimo dictionary to help Father Hubbard, fondly known to them as "the Glacier Priest." Father Hubbard discovers and names a lake after the College: Lake Marywood. He also carries Marywood's banner during a flight over the North Pole and presents the school with a living memento of this exotic region, a pair of Alaskan Huskies named Damon and Pythias. Marywood later becomes the eastern distribution center for Father Hubbard Educational Films.
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| 1930s |
The Marywood Athletic Association sponsors sports competitions, including gymnastics, tennis, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and golf.
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| 1930s |
Four music groups are thriving: the Liturgical Society, devoted to the preservation of Gregorian Chant; the St. Cecilia Musical Society, cultivating a more general appreciation of music and its literature; the Cecilian Glee Club for those who simply love to sing; and the Marywood orchestra for those with instrumental talents.
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| 1930s |
Campus publications include the Science Department's Baconite quarterly; the Commercial Department's Commercial Leaf; the Students' Spiritual Council's S.S.C. Newsletter; Trio, a review in Spanish, French, and Italian; and The Marywoodian, a newspaper that appears at irregular intervals.
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| 1930s |
A Council of Debate is formed; it persists through the 1960s. |
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