UNIVERSITY OF See also:PENNSYLVANIA
, an See also:American institution twenty-four trustees, of which the See also:governor of See also:Pennsylvania is ex-officio See also:president
.
The directing See also:head of the university, and the head of the university See also:faculty and of the faculty of each See also:department is the See also:provost—a See also:title rarely used in American See also:universities; the provost is president See also:pro tempore of the See also:board of trustees
.
In 1908-1909 the university had 454 See also:officers of instruction, of whom 220 were in the See also:college and 157 in the department
(See also:Philadelphia, 18o1 sqq. and See also:Harrisburg, 1802 sqq.) ; and The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1896 sqq.), published under an See also:act of 1887
.
Some valuable See also:information is to be found in B
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A. and M
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L
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Hinsdale, See also:History and See also:Civil See also:Government of Pennsylvania
...
(See also:Chicago, 1899) ; and in the various See also:editions of Smull's Legislative Handbook and See also:Manual
.
For the history of penal and charitable institutions, see the See also:Annual Reports of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities (Harrisburg, 1871 sqq.); the Annual Reports of the See also:Committee on Lunacy (Harrisburg, 1883 sqq.) ; and See also:Amos H
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Mylin, Penal and Charitable Institutions of Pennsylvania (2 vols., Harrisburg, 1897), an See also:official publication, well written and handsomely illustrated
.
For educational history, see N
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C
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Schaeffer, The See also:Common School See also:Laws of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, 1904) ; B
.
A
.
Hinsdale, Documents Illustrative of American Educational History (See also:Washington, 1895) ; and J
.
P
.
Wickersham, History of See also:Education in Pennsylvania (See also:Lancaster, 1886), one of the best See also:state histories of education
.
For See also:finance and banking, see the annual reports of the state treasurer, auditor-See also:general, sinking fund commissioners, and the See also:commissioner of banking, all published at Harrisburg; An See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the See also:Paper See also:Money of Pennsylvania, by a member of the Numismatic Society of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1862) ; and B
.
M
.
See also:Mead,
A Brief See also:Review of the See also:Financial History of Pennsylvania
.
.. to the See also:Present See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time (1682-1881) (Harrisburg, 1881)
.
The only See also:complete history of the entire See also:period is See also:Howard M
.
See also:Jenkins, et al., Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1903)
.
This is especially valuable for the detailed histories of gubernatorial administrations from 1790 to 1903
.
The third See also:volume contains useful chapters on education, the judiciary, the medical profession, journalism, military affairs, See also:internal improvements, &c
.
S
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G
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See also:Fisher, Pennsylvania, See also:Colony and See also:Commonwealth (Philadelphia, 1897) contains the best See also:short See also:account of the colonial and revolutionary history, but it gives only a very brief See also:summary of the period since 1783
.
W
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R
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Shepherd, History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania (New See also:York, 1896), a detailed study of the proprietary from the See also:political, governmental and territorial points of view, is scholarly, and gives a See also:good account of the boundary disputes with See also:Maryland, See also:Virginia, New York and See also:Connecticut
.
Among the older See also:standard See also:works are Samual See also:Hazard, See also:Annals .of Pennsylvania from the See also:Discovery of the See also:Delaware, 1609-1682 (Phila-
delphia, 185o), an elaborate account of the See also:early Dutch and See also:Swedish, settlements on the Delaware See also:river and See also:bay; and See also:Robert Proud,
History of the Pennsylvania from 1681 until after the See also:year 1742 (2 vols.,
Philadelphia, 1797-1798), written from the Quaker standpoint
.
For early See also:literary history, see M
.
K
.
See also:Jackson, Outline of the Literary History of Colonial Pennsylvania (New York, 1908)
.
W
.
H
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Egle, Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (See also:Harris-
See also:burg, 1877), contains trustworthy histories of individual counties by various writers
.
J
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B
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McMaster and F
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D
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See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone, Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788 (Philadelphia, 1888), is a useful See also:work
.
For the See also:anti-Masonic See also:movement, see See also:Charles McCarthy, The Anti-Masonic Party (Washington, 1903)
.
S
.
G
.
Fisher, The Making of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1896), See also:introductory to the same author's Colony and Commonwealth, is an interesting study of the various nationalities and religions represented among the settlers of the state
.
For the period of Quaker predominance (1681-1756), see See also:Isaac Sharpless, History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1898-1899)
.
See also J
.
See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton's " History of the Moravian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church " (See also:Nazareth, Pa., 1900), vol. vi. of the Transactions of the Moravian
Historical Society; Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania
See also:German Society, vols. vii. and viii
.
(See also:Reading, 1897-1898) ; J
.
F
.
Sachse, German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, 1694-1708 (Philadelphia, 1895), and German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, 1708-1800
(2 vols., Philadelphia, 1899-1901)
.
The See also:chief See also:sources are the Pennsylvania Archives (first See also:series, 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1852-1856; second series, 19 vols., Harrisburg, 1874-1893; and third series, 4 vols., Harrisburg, 1894-1895) ; Colonial Records, 1683-1790 (16 vols., Philadelphia, 1852); and See also:Samuel Hazard, See also:Register of Pennsylvania (16 vols., Philadelphia, 1828-1836)
.
The Pennsylvania Historical Society, organized in Philadelphia in 1825, has published 14 vols. of See also:Memoirs (1826-1895), a Bulletin of 13 See also:numbers (1845-1847), one volume of Collections (1853), and the Pennsylvania See also:Magazine of History and See also:Biography, a Quarterly
(1877 sqq.)
.
There is a good account of the public archives, both printed and See also:manuscript, in the first See also:report of the Public Archives See also:Commission of the American Historical Association, published in vol. ii. of the annual report of the association for the year 1900 (Washington, 1901)
.
of higher learning, in Philadelphia, occupying about 6o acres, near the See also:west See also:bank of the Schuylkill river, See also:north-See also:east of the Philadelphia See also:Hospital, east of 39th See also:Street, See also:south-east of Woodland See also:Avenue, and south of See also:Chestnut Street
.
In this irregular See also:area are all the buildings except the See also:Flower Astronomical See also:Observatory (1896), which is 2 M. beyond the See also:city limits on the West See also:Chester See also:Pike
.
The northernmost
of See also:medicine, and an enrolment of 4570 students, of whom 2989 I the college in See also:England about £6goo; and in 1764 his See also:influence were in the college (412 in the school of arts; 987 in the Towne had become so strong that it was feared that the college would become sectarian
.
The Penns and others deprecated this and the trustees See also:bound themselves (1764) to " use their utmost endeavours that
.
.
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(the See also:original See also:plan) be not narrowed, nor the members of the Church of England, nor those dissenting from them
.
. . be put on any worse footing in this See also:seminary than they were at the time of receiving the royal brief." From See also:September 1777 to See also:June 1778 college exercises were not held because Philadelphia was occupied by See also:British troops
.
In 1779 the state legislature, on the ground that the trustees' See also:declaration in 1764 was a " narrowing of the See also:foundation," 1 confiscated the rights and See also:property of the college and chartered a new See also:corporation " the Trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania "; in 1789 the college was restored to its rights and property and See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith again became its provost; in 1791 the college and the university of the State of Pennsylvania were See also:united under the title, " the University of Pennsylvania," whose trustees were elected from their own members by the board of trustees of the college and that of the university
.
In 1802 the university See also:purchased new grounds on Ninth Street, between See also:Market and Chestnut, where the See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office See also:building now is; there until 1829 the university occupied the building erected for the administrative See also:mansion of the president of the United States; there new buildings were erected after 1829; and from these the university removed to its present site in 1872
.
The provosts have been: in 1755-1779 and in 1789-1803, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Smith; in 1779-1791, of the university of the state of Pennsylvania, See also:John See also:Ewing (1732-1802); in 1807-1810, John McDowell (1750-1820); in 1810—1813,John See also:Andrews (1746-1813); in 1813-1828, See also:Frederick Beasley (1777-1845); in 1828-1833, William See also:Heathcote De Lancey (1797-1865); in 1834-1853, John See also:Ludlow (1793-1857); in 18J4-1859, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Vethake (1792-1866) ; in 186o-1868, See also:Daniel Raynes See also:Goodwin (1811-189o) ; in 1868-188o, Charles Janeway Stille (1819-1899); in 1881-1894, William See also:Pepper (1843-1898); in 1894-191o, Charles Custis See also:Harrison (b
.
1844), and in 1911 sqq
.
See also:Edgar Fahs Smith (b
.
1856)
.
scientific school; 472 in the See also:Wharton school, and 253 in the evening school of accounts and finance; 384 in courses for teachers; and 481 in the summer school), 353 in the See also:graduate school, 327 in the department of See also:law, 559 in the department of medicine, 385 in the department of See also:dentistry, and 150 in the department of veterinary medicine
.
In See also:August 1907 the excess of the university's See also:assets over its liabilities was $13,239,408 and the donations for the year were $305,814
.
A very large proportion of the university's investments is in real See also:estate, especially in Philadelphia
.
In 1907 the See also:total value of real estate (including the university buildings) was $6,829,154; and See also:libraries, museums, apparatus and See also:furniture were valued at $2,025,357
.
Students' tuition fees vary from $150 to $too a year in the college; and are $16o in the department of law, $200 in the department of medicine, $15o in the department of dentistry and $See also:loo in the department of veterinary See also:science
.
The income from tuition fees in 1906—1907 was $458,396; the payments for " educational salaries " amounted to $433,311, and for " See also:administration salaries " to $135,314
.
The university publishes the following series: Astronomical Series (1899 sqq.); Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory (1892 sqq.) ; Contributions from the Laboratory of See also:Hygiene (1898 sqq.) ; Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory 893 sqq.); Series in History (1901 sqq.); Series in See also:Mathematics (1897 sqq.); Series in See also:Philology and Literature (1891 sqq.); Series in Romanic See also:Languages and Literatures (1907 sqq.); Series in See also:Philosophy (1890 sqq.); Series in Political See also:Economy and Public Law (1885 sqq.) ; The American Law Register (1852 sqq.); The University of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin (1888 sqq.) ; Transactions of the Department of See also:Archaeology (19o4 sqq.) ; the See also:Journal of See also:Morphology (1887 ,sqq.) ; and Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of lfennsylvania (1897 sqq.)
.
There are also occasional publications by institutes and departments connected with the university
.
Student publications include: a daily, The Pennsylvanian (1885); the weekly, Old See also:Penn (1902); a comic monthly, The See also:Punch Bowl; a literary monthly, The Red and See also:Blue; a quarterly of the department of dentistry, The Penn Dental Journal; an annual, The See also:Record; and The Alumni Register (1896), a monthly
.
See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin in 1749 published a pamphlet, entitled Proposals See also:Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, which led to the formation of a board of twenty-four trustees, nineteen of whom, on the 13th of See also:November 1749, met for organization and to promote " the Publick See also:Academy in the City of Philadelphia," and elected Benjamin Franklin president of the board, an office which he held until 1756
.
So closely was Franklin identified with the plan that See also:Matthew See also:Arnold called the institution " the University of Franklin." On the 1st of See also:February 1750 there was conveyed to this board of trustees the " New Building " on See also:Fourth Street, near See also:Arch, which had been erected in 1740 for a charity school—a use to which it had not been put—and as a " See also:house of Publick See also:Worship," in which See also:George See also:Whitefield had preached in November 1740; the original trustees (including Franklin) of the " New Building " and of its projected charity school date from 1740, and therefore the university attaches to its See also:seal the words " founded 1740." In the " New Building " the academy was opened on the 7th of See also:January 1751, the city having voted £200 in the preceding August for the completion of the building
.
On the 16th of September 1751 a charitable school " for the instruction of poor See also:Children gratis in Reading, See also:Writing, and Arithmetick " was opened in the " New Building." The proprietaries, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas and See also:Richard Penn, incorporated " The Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the See also:Province of Pennsylvania " in 17J3; and in 1755 issued a confirmatory See also:charter, changing the corporate name to " The Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School," &c., whereupon William Smith (1727-1803) of the university of See also:Aberdeen, who had become See also:rector of the academy in 1752 and had taken orders in the Church of England in 1753, became provost of the college
.
In 1756 Dr Smith established a complete and liberal curriculum which was adopted by See also:Bishop See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Madison in 1777 when he became president of the College of William and See also:Mary
.
In 1757 the first college class graduated
.
Under Smith's See also:control the Latin school See also:grew in importance at the expense of the See also:English school, to the See also:great annoyance of Franklin
.
In 1762-1764 Dr Smith collected for
See T
.
H
.
See also:Montgomery, A History of the University of Pennsylvania from its Foundation to A.D
.
2770 (Philadelphia, 1900) ; George B
.
See also:Wood, Early History of the University of Pennsylvania (3rd ed., ibid., 1896) ; J
.
B
.
McMaster, The University of Pennsylvania (ibid
.
1897) ; G
.
E
.
Nitzsche, Official See also:Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (ibid., 1906); and See also:Edward P
.
Cheyney, " University of Pennsylvania," in vol. i. of Universities and their Sons (See also:Boston, 1901)
.
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