Promotional Brochure for Mt. Angel College, St. Benedict, Oregon (circa 1927) Benedictine - Marion County - History

Item: [promotional brochure] Mt. Angel College, St. Benedict, Oregon (circa 1927)

Description: No date (published circa 1927). Saddle-stitched in thin card wraps; oval window in front cover. Yapped edges of covers show minor wear. Some foxing on pages. Unmarked. Illustrated. 24 pp. 8.8 x 4 inches.

Promotional brochure for Mount Angel College in Oregon, published circa 1927, describing the school and its offerings.

Includes portraits of the reverends Abbot Bernard Murphy, Rector Alcuin Heibel, and Director Benedict Barr; a short history of the Benedictines in Oregon; brief descriptions of the college, its faculty, the junior college and college preparatory school, seminary, libraries, journalism course, science courses, biology laboratories, museum, music instruction, lectures, athletics, student associations, and clubs.

Photos include campus buildings (including that of the Benedictine Press), gymnasium, interiors of the library, museum, and biology laboratory, the 1926 season football and basketball teams, and a few more.

Condition: Very Good

Place: St. Benedict, Oregon
Year: 1927

Keywords: Mount Angel, Oregon, Benedictines, colleges, promotional brochure, ephemera, Marion County, history, Mount Angel Abbey,