La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons Explorer (Yearbooks) University Publications 1953 Explorer 1953 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorer Recommended Citation La Salle University, "Explorer 1953" (1953). Explorer (Yearbooks). 10. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorer/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Explorer (Yearbooks) by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. w Wlc If) 11 — y*TS>-2^3^o£ tK^ ir-„«,,T , h>-^.^.^fc-^^,.>^A^^-'^^liL,' . LA SALLE IS GROWING . In 1863, the Christian Brothers opened a small school in Philadel- phia. Within twenty years the school had outgrown its facilities and was forced to nnove to a new location. A few more years and this location also became too small and the school moved again, this time to more spacious acreage at the present site, 20th and OIney. Buildings began to grow out of the ground, slowly at first, then rapidly as the G.I. Bill swelled enrollment and filled the classrooms. Old fa- cilities were expanded, new facili- ties were created—another class- room building, a modern library, a bigger, better dining hall. Today student residence buildings are rising. II been In the four years we have here, we, the senior class, have seen La Salle inaugurate a most ambitious plan for expansion, not in only in brick and steel, but achievement and glory and^ re- nown.