Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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3,152 STUDENTS LIVE 'ON CAMPUS' p?ROM forty-one states, four territories, and seven foreign countries come the students who make up Temple's cosmopolitan population. Leading state is. of course, Pennsylvania, followed m order hy New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Connecticut. Maryland. Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Panama contributes five students, the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico, four each: Canada two. China, Honduras. Italy, the British West Indies and Hawa.i one each Although Temple has no men’s dormitories, the recently remodeled woman’s dorms.” with their attractive baby campus, provide such interesting settings as that shown at left. Beautiful Mitten Hall, the “indoor campus” provides students with reading rooms, and rest and recreational facilities, amid luxury like that of an exclusive club. The photograph below shows Christmas decorations in the Great Court.

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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

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-FIND INTEREST IN CITY SIGHTS Y fONDERS of the. nation's thirJ largest city give never-ending enjoyment to many students, who come to Philadelphia from smaller communities. They find that Penn’s “Greene Countrie Towne. founded in 1682 and charter cd in 1701, has grown to a metropolis of 129.714 square miles, with a population of 1,950,961 and which contains 447.199 buildings, of which more than 425,000 are dwellings. In the old “city proper, extending from Vine to South Streets and from river to river, are contained many of the large mercantile establishments. On busy Chestnut Street, shown at right, are located many of the exclusive ” shops. Several of the large department stores may be seen in the lower photograph, made from Twelfth and Market Streets. The stately Delaware River Bridge, leading to Camden, may he discerned in the background. 17