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A few times each semester, students at 91���� gather at the home of one of their tutors to enjoy an evening meal and each other’s company. Tutor Dr. Margaret Hughes recently hosted one such event for Section 1-A of the New England Freshman Class.

“What we’re doing at Section Dinners is taking the discourse and the curiosity we’re developing in class and moving it beyond the formalities,” Dr. Hughes explains. “We see what it means to live an intellectual life.”

As the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games drew to a close, students on the New England campus — joined by prospective students who were visiting for an Open House weekend — gathered for an Olympic-themed dance. Olivia Music Hall, usually a building reserved for students to practice Mozart or Bach, was transformed into the 2022 Thomas Aquinas Olympic Games. Flags from across the world hung from the ceiling as music from different countries played in the background. 

“We’ll roll the old chariot along and we’ll all hang on behind,” chanted the men of Wilson residence hall last Wednesday evening on the New England campus as they marched to court the women of Gould Hall. 

The “dorm wooing,” as coined by senior Joseph Caldwell and junior Ben Domnarski, expresses the men’s appreciation for the women on the campus. “By serenading the women and giving them gifts, we wanted to thank them for being here with us,” said Ben Domnarski.

It was a treat for students at 91����, New England, last Saturday when alumna and Olympic ice dancer

Mark your calendars!

91���� will host an Open House from Thursday, February 17, through Monday, February 21, for prospective students on its Northfield, Massachusetts, campus. The event will allow high school juniors and seniors to experience firsthand the academic and spiritual life of the campus, as well as the College’s unique curriculum of Catholic liberal education. 

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As a young campus, 91����, New England shares many traditions with its California counterpart, but it has also established a few of its own. Every year, for instance, the East Coast campus hosts an Epiphany Dance instead of the traditional Christmas formal. This year, however, it deviated from its still-young tradition: On Saturday, the Senior Class invited fellow students, faculty, and their families to Tracy Student Center for a Russian-themed Candlemas Dance in celebration of the Epiphany of Our Lord and Candlemas this coming Wednesday. 

As the students of 91����, California, departed for this year’s Walk for Life in San Francisco, their counterpart in New England participated in the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., for the second time in campus history. 

In the fall of 2019, 34 students who had just completed their freshman year at 91����, California, volunteered to make the 3,000-mile trek to found the newly acquired New England campus. These hearty souls would make up the inaugural Sophomore Class.