"Even those in good health cannot avoid getting old. But
inside, in a person's spirit, there is no death, even when the body begins to fade
away. Interiorly you do not waste away, even though the timbers of your body are
weighed down and creaking with years."
St. Augustine
Letter 147, chapter 2
Villanova's Centennial, celebrated in 1942-1943, had to be curtailed
because of World War II. A brief, illustrated history of the college's first
one-hundred years appeared in the student year book, The Belle Air, for 1943. The
centennial observances began with a Solemn Pontifical Mass in September 1942 and concluded
with a special convocation in May 1943.
