As important as the classroom and the chapel are to the lives of our students, much of the education that we offer—the formation of the integral person—takes place within our student residences, St. Joseph’s Residence (for men) and St. Mary’s Residence (for women). Our residences are places of deep significance, where friendships are born, great fun is had, Compline is sung as a community, and prayer about life’s most pressing concerns are offered up.
When guests visit, we hear again and again about how they are impressed by our student residences. Each building was designed in the typical New England colonial style with clapboard siding, brick, and shuttered windows. The residences become a “home away from home” for the students enrolled at the college. We are grateful to those who built our campus and provided spaces to live that are conducive to study, rest, and community life.
Over four years of study, the residences become the heart of student leisure, friendship, and recreation. The residences are separated by sex, without inter-visitation, and arranged to foster the growth of the individual and the community as a whole. Each residence has a large living room, a chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved, study areas, a recreation room, an exercise room, and laundry facilities. Each bedroom accommodates several students with bunk beds, wardrobes, storage spaces, and an en-suite bathroom.
Two Residence Assistants reside in each dorm, supported by our Dean of Student Life who also resides on campus. The RAs are available to listen, guide, protect, and support students as they undertake the great adventure of liberal education.
Our Office of Student Life is an active part of the collegiate life, ordering its own activities to the larger mission of liberal education. Student life staff are available to assist students with needs ranging from access to medical care, time management, and upcoming events. The student life office also provides a space where students can relax, get a cup of hot cocoa, and engage in conversation. The college’s student life principles and policies are rooted in a Catholic understanding of human nature and purpose. They are designed to encourage and support the pursuit of virtuous living ordered to the joyful pursuit of wisdom. See Student Life Policies for specific information.
Our 135-acre campus is located in the foothills of Mt. Kearsarge, an area of pine and hardwood forest, open fields, and stone walls that are remnants of a late nineteenth- century farm. The morning fogs that rise over the Mink Hills and the sunsets that greet worshipers as they leave Mass on Sunday evenings strike every visitor, and that beauty is evident in all four seasons.
St. Joseph’s Residence is the home of the college’s men. St. Joseph’s has a common room, a recreation room, a laundry room with coin-operated washers and dryers, a workout room, and a chapel in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. Each student is provided with his own furniture set. All rooms are multi-person housing and include:
St. Mary’s Residence is the home of the college’s women. St. Mary’s has a common room, a laundry room with coin-operated washers and dryers, an exercise room, and a chapel in which the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. Each student is provided with their own furniture set. All rooms are multi-person housing and include:
Applicants to the college are encouraged to visit campus or take our virtual tour. Through these, potential students can experience first-hand the student residences and ask questions about residential life.
At a recent Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Hanover, NH, Magdalen showed true grit amidst disc-gusting weather! Kudos to Antonio Gamundi for helping to organize this event.
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Some scenes from a very blessed Holy Week at Magdalen College. Thank you to Mr. Tristan Smith and all the students and alumni who sang in the choir and helped to celebrate with us, and thanks to Fr. Rocker, Fr. Traynor, Deacon Cooper, and the altar servers for the beautiful liturgies. Christus Resurrexit!
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Will the chapel remain consecrated and functional after the college closes? It's heartbreaking to see you go!! I hope the chapel will remain for local faithful.
Magdalen‘s running club turned in an impressive performance at the St. Paddy’s 5K/10K race in Portsmouth, NH. Danny and Anna both won their divisions, and Tommy, Antonio, Faustyna, Ave, and Aden all finished in the top 7 in theirs. Congrats to Danny on finishing 4th overall in the race!
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Congrats! Impressive
Magdalen students recently set up over 1,000 crosses on campus in honor of their commitment to work for a culture of life. The crosses help to showcase the large number of pre-born humans killed each day by abortion.
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Magdalen brought home the trophy in the final annual volleyball game against Thomas More College. Congratulations to all the students who participated in this co-ed tournament and who cheered on their classmates with terrific school spirit. Thanks to Thomas More for the fun competition.
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I’m still sad about the news. I sent a DM with no response
I wonder if many of the students will transfer to Thomas More next fall. Bittersweet.
Students recently explored beautiful Franconia, NH, including a breakfast at Polly’s Pancake Parlor, a snowy hike at Cannon Mountain, and dinner at the Presby home. Special thanks to Aden Presby for leading this trip! 
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Looks like fun! 😊
(B.A. Bible/Biology)* ALTHOUGH I AM a conservative Christian (Reformed Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches or supports the traditional doctrine of hell with its teaching of eternal torment or suffering. The Bible does teach eternal punishment, but it's not eternal torment. Those in hell will suffer in proportion to their individual sins, some worse than others, but the ultimate and eternal punishment or penalty for sin itself is the eternal literal death of soul and body (the eternal loss to life and immortality), not eternal torment. The Scripture teaches that God’s wrath in hell is not an end in itself but a means to an end, that end being eternal destruction, not eternal torment. God is just but not cruel. Eternal torment is not necessary to satisfy God's eternal justice. God will not allow sin to exist eternally by keeping sinners alive for eternity in hell. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS (Just do a Google search of the title or search for the title in Medium[dot]com), I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scripture passages have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. There have been good Christians through the centuries who have held to this view including Isaac Watts, author of the classic Christian hymn "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross." Do you realize that the word “forever” in Scripture doesn’t always mean eternity? Then, what else can it mean? Read the article. If the Bible really doesn’t teach eternal torment and suffering then how do you explain reading in the Bible about “unquenchable fire,” “eternal fire,” “eternal punishment,” “eternal damnation,” “eternal judgment,” the account by Jesus of the Rich Man and Lazarus, etc.? Again, you need to read the article. You will find in the article Biblical answers to many questions on the subject of hell (including what 99.9% of all Christians do not realize, understand, and know regarding Jesus’ account of the Rich Man and Lazarus). Find out why science supports there are limits to evolution (biological variations) in nature and why nature is not capable of overcoming those limits. Read my popular Internet article, NATURAL LIMITS OF EVOLUTION. Google search the title to access the article or go to Medium[dot]com and access the article. * I am a former Hindu converted to Christianity. I have my B.A. with dual concentrations in Bible and Biology from Bob Jones University and completed two years of full-time graduate study in law at Western New England University School of Law. I have given successful lectures (with question and answer period afterwards) defending creation before evolutionist science faculty and students at various colleges and universities. I have been privileged to be recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis "Who's Who in The East" for my writings on religion and science.
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Students will have the opportunity to take one of the following courses for college credit. Taught in Socratic-style seminar discussions, each course enables students to explore a particular interest and consider whether they might like to pursue that academic discipline as a potential college major. Students will spend 3.5-4 hours in class each day, have some assigned homework, and spend the remaining time in prayer, liturgy, sacred music, relaxation with new friends, and a wide range of extra-curricular activities.
Theology of the Body: The Deeper Meaning of Love, Sex, and Marriage (1 credit) – Dr. Ryan Messmore
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
When it comes to romantic relationships and marriage, today’s culture is awash in confusion. The Church calls people to see a deeper meaning to sexual desire and marriage. But what is that, and how can it be pursued in modern times? Saint Pope John Paul II has provided valuable teaching in this area. Along with his “Theology of the Body,” this course will explore the nature of love, the meaning of betrothal and marriage, and sexual ethics from a Christian perspective. Class discussions will be theological and philosophical as well as practical.
Philosophy & Humanities: Friendship in Western Culture (1 credit) – Dr. Brian FitzGerald and Dr. Erik Van Versendaal
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
One of the most important features of human experience is friendship. Drawing on the great books of Western culture in literature, history, philosophy, and theology, from Aristotle and St. Augustine to Jane Austen and C.S. Lewis, this course will reflect on the nature of friendship across the centuries. Why do we need friends? What makes a good one? What are some obstacles to friendship? What happens as friends grow and mature in different ways?
Christ in Scripture (1 credit) – Deacon Karl Cooper
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” In this course we will seek to meet and understand Christ as he presents himself in all the Scriptures. We will read, discuss, enjoy, and pray through the most crucial texts, and focus our work on the living and present Christ.
$395.00 USD
Tuition includes room and board. The purchase of a book may be required for some classes. Students should bring spending money for off-campus trips.
Students will have the opportunity to take one of the following courses for college credit. Taught in Socratic-style seminar discussions, each course enables students to explore a particular interest and consider whether they might like to pursue that academic discipline as a potential college major. Students will spend 3.5-4 hours in class each day, have some assigned homework, and spend the remaining time in prayer, liturgy, sacred music, relaxation with new friends, and a wide range of extra-curricular activities.
Physics: Understanding Boomerangs, Billiard Balls, and Balance Beam Routines (1 credit) – Mr. John Klucinec
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
This course explores the laws of motion as described by Galileo and Newton by reading and discussing these authors and through classroom experiments. Students will gain an understanding of physics in concrete phenomena through studying air flight, fluid dynamics, the aerodynamics of the boomerang, the motion of billiard balls, and the physics of gymnastics and diving.
Poetry and Politics in the Western Tradition (1 credit) – Dr. Mary Mumbach
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
This course will examine poetic form and political form in the tradition of the West. Students will explore, in particular, how the Incarnation shapes the roles of imagination, prudence, and the heroic in literature and political philosophy. Readings in poetry, fiction, and American Founding documents will be considered.
Moral Philosophy: How Do We Make the Right Decisions? (1 credit) – Rev. Fr. Stephen Rocker
THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL
Natural law morality and utilitarianism are incompatible frameworks of moral reasoning, yet elements of both are mixed in the public mind. Catholic moral teaching and the Western system of law are grounded in natural law. This course will present these two moral frameworks and apply them to moral issues.
$395.00 USD
Tuition includes room and board. The purchase of a book may be required for some classes. Students should bring spending money for off-campus trips.