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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heir number to celebrate Deweys victory,l^ver since, the night of the First of May has been set apart fora student parade, a huge bonbre, wrestling, tug-of-war and othersports, on Franklin F^ield. r.rief sketches of each of the various departments and schoolsof the University and descriptions of the buildings in whichthey arc housed will be found on succeeding pages. We acknowledge the loyalty and self-sacrificing spirit of thealumni, the faculty and the officers of administration during onehundred and sevent3-five years, and during the past few yearsthe generous assistance of the city and State. The Universityis not the gift of a single philanlhronist or of a group of men,but of many. With meagre endowment and often with strainedresources the University has won a place among the foremostin scholarship as well as in ecpiipment. ITINERARY SUGGESTED The following is a xMure i)repared by the editor of thisguide-b(»ok for a sight seeing automobile company which had ^,fy!^!^f/tl^/f!m^7/^,
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3^ its cars conu- tliri»ii.L;li tlu- University Krouiuls It will ho foundof value to tiiosc who wish to take friends through the University in the shortest time, and without retraeini; footsteps. Ajjproaeh the Uni\ersity from Thirty-fourth and ChestmitStreets, and on arriving on the west side of ThirtN- third Street,say: W^e are in)w approaehinj; the lniversit> of reiuisylvania.which was founded hy l»enjamin hranklin and which had itsorigin in a charity school ori^anized in 17.^0. Ani«)n.n the Ameri-can universities it is the third ttldest. hut was the first institu-tion to he called a university and the lirst one to emhody theidea of a university. It is locateil within ten miiuites ride of thecenter of a metropolis of a populatitin of ahuost two millions.Its campus consists of 117 acres, on which there are iui>re thanseventy Iniiltlings, besides many cluh and fraternity houses,ilere more than iS,(xh> students are drawn annually from everyState in the Lhiion, and from fort

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