Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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UNIVERSITY NERVI- CENTER Conwell H.ill (front), ami Cornell Hall (rear), house administrative offices as well as class rooms, laboratories, and special facilities. Conwdl Hall was erected in 1924 as part of a plan to have an entire block of six-story structures. In 1926, the Temple of Learning (see p. 28) was planned. Subsequently, ('unwell Hall got another ll»x r. an.d Carncll Hall was opened for use in 1929. The next unit will be the thirty-story central tower. 14

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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

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CITY AND SUBURBS SEND 7,348 DAILY A BOVE and below ground, in automobiles, trains and trolleys, and on bicycles, conic the thousands ot students whose homes are near the University, and who commute daily Modern transportation methods are a far cry from those of 1SS-4, when Temple was founded, eight years before the city's first trolley cars were operated. The Broad Street subway, which speeded transportation from North, South, and West Philadelphia, was placed in operation in 1928. Curiously, as shown in the second photograph. Temple students get off the subway at Columbia, hut Columbia students do nut. The wide streets surrounding the University provide ample parking accommodations for students who drive to classes. Unlike some colleges. Temple does not forbid use of motor ears. 15