its closing, and despite clamoring from alumni, it took until 1930 to re-open the college. The college was temporarily located on Newark Avenue, before moving in 1936 to its current location on the former estate of Edward Faitoute Condict Young on Hudson Boluevard (now Kennedy Boulevard), between Montgomery Street and Glenwood Avenue. The first building on constructed on the new campus was Collins Memorial Gymnasium where the Peacocks men's basketball team played most of their home games through the 1950s.
The college was integrated in 1936, when the college admitted its first black student. The college granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 and was the first Jesuit school to do so.
The college became co-educational in 1966, though women had been admitted to the school's evening program in 1930, and a group of 35 women had been admitted due to low enrollment during World War II.
The college has made an effort to reach out into the New Jersey suburbs, with a former satellite …
