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Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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ick I.easley, D.D., 1813-28;William De Lancey, LL.D., 1828-33; John Ludlow, LL.D.,1834-53; Henry Vethake, LL.D., 1854-59; Daniel Raynes Good-win, LL.D., 1860-68; Charles Janevvay Stille, 1868-80; WilliamPepper, LL.D., 1881-94; Charles Custis Harrison, LL.D., 1894 1911. Benjamin Franklin was the first president of the Board ofTrustees, being elec:ed in 1749 and serving in that capacity until1756. and again from 1781) to 1790. The other i)residents whoserved before 1800 were: Rev. Richard Peters, Hon. JamesHamilton, Hon. John Penn, Hon. Richard Penn, Rt. Rev. WilliamWhite. It will be seen, then, that it was during the administration ofProvost Stille that the University moved to West Philadelphiaand a period of i)hysical expansion ensued which has continuedduring forty years, at the beginning of which, or in 1873, theUniversity may be said to have entered upon a new era. During the administration of Provost Stille the UniversityHospital was established and the main building of green ser-
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O CJ P K WQ<U 20 peiitiiic stone was built; the Towne Scientific Scliool was foundedand allotted a wing of the College; the Department of Musicwas cstahlislud : the Dental School was founded with an oi)er-ating room in Mare Laboratory. The expansion of the University during the administration ofIrovo^t Iejjper by the addition of new departments is a wonder-ful recttrd and it has been inscribed for all time on the pedestal
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