Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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INDEPENDENCE HALL Most sacred of American shrines. Independence Hall symbolizes the link between the Philadelphia of the present and of the past. Here were drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Here rests the Liberty Bell. Philadelphia’s present progressivcncss is well typified in Temple University. THE PLACE

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CITY LIGHTS PHILADELPHIA’S k scrapers shown here in an interesting night photograph looking cast toward Broad and Sansom Streets,were non existent when Dr. GmweilV first students began their evening classes in 1S84. The Fidelity Philadelphia Building dominates the sky line in left center; in front of it may be seen the r mf of the Union League Perhaps the tiny figures seen at work in the lighted offices are Temple graduates NIGH I SCHOOL activities now are sec ondarv, and yet each week day evening hundreds of students gather in Camel I and Cain-well Halls (right) and other Temple buildings, eager to get educational advantages which otherwise might be denied them. In making college training available to thousands of students in the past 5$ years, Temple University has truly helped “give light unto the world.” z t 4 i-ii r k : n fc f | r h' f - r r • rfel » K hit ! r f- i 1 f » M r 1 I : i : m i T HE FOUNDER, immortalized in this bust by Boris B'lai, believed a higher education should be available for every young man and young woman capable of benefiting by u. he found “Acres of Diamonds in persons others often neglected