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Pennsylvania's Villanova University (6,500 students) is a track-and-field power run by the Augustinians. The Brothers of the Christian Schools run Manhattan College (3,550 men)—in The Bronx. Brooklyn's big (10,800) St. John's University is run by Vincentians, has long welcomed low-income Jews.
Among the best women's colleges is the Society of the Sacred Heart's Manhattanville (765 students), founded in Manhattan and now located on the old 250-acre Whitelaw Reid estate in suburban Westchester County. Noted for its school of liturgical music. Manhattanville (fee: $2,500 a year) attracts the rich. Among its alumnae: President Kennedy's mother, his sisters Eunice and Jean, and Brother Bobby's wife Ethel. Notre Dame's neighbor, Saint Mary's College (1,507 women), was founded in 1855 as the nation's first degree-granting Catholic women's college. Until she retired last year, Saint Mary's was graced by one of Catholicism's finest college presidents, Sister M. Madeleva, a noted poet. Its aim: to educate women "for immortality, for infinity, for the Beatific Vision."