Memorial Day Weekend hours

The Library AND the Learning Commons will be closed Saturday, May 28th - Monday, May 30th, and will resume regular summer hours on Tuesday the 31st.

Throwback Thursday: School's out

School's out for summer!

If you recognize either of these two, let us know; the archives doesn't have any record of their names.

Summer hours

Library Hours, May 16 - August 21, 2016

Monday - Friday:        8:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday:    CLOSED


Learning Commons Hours (open area on main level; departments keep their own hours):

Monday - Thursday:   8:00 a.m. -5:50 p.m.
Friday:                        8:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Saturday:                    9:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Sunday:                      CLOSED


Exception Dates (affect both Library & Learning Commons):

May 28:                      CLOSED
May 30:                      CLOSED
July 2:                         CLOSED
July 4:                         CLOSED
July 29:                       8:00 a.m. - Noon
August 15:                  CLOSED
August 16 - 19:           8:00 a.m. - 4:50 p.m.

Throwback Thursday: Seniors & hoods

Today we get a peek at the dining hall in the 1940's, and we explore the background of a uniquely Seton Hill tradition that you'll get to see this Saturday at Commencement. 

Meals in Lowe used to be served "family style," as you can see from the table settings. 

For formal events, students were required to wear their academic regalia. Yes, it would have looked even more like Hogwarts in there back in the day with everyone wearing their black robes!

To designate their status, seniors wore their bachelor's hoods at all formal events throughout the year. Even today, Seton Hill graduates from the bachelor's programs are already wearing their hoods at the beginning of Commencement exercises; most colleges and universities have a formal "hooding" for them on stage. SHU only "hoods" its master's recipients. 

Congratulations in advance to all of our graduates! Hazard Yet Forward.

Many thanks, as always, to Bill Black in the SHU Archives for the pictures and the stories. 

Throwback Thursday: Canevin dorm room

Some of you more type-A students are probably already beginning to pack up for the summer. Here's what you'd be putting in a steamer trunk if you'd attended in 1925: