Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TEMPLE MOVES ON I OCATED within two Mocks of the city’s center • •» population (which according to the 1930 census was .it Sixteenth Street .uul Montgomery Avenue) Temple University has fairly caught Philadelphia's spirit of prog ress. Unhampered by ancient traditions, it has been able to keep up with the times, and has made remarkable advances, not only physically, but also academically and in prestige, in the last few years. Among the newest buildings arc Mitten Hall, a detail of which i shown at right, and the beautiful Sullivan Memorial Library (below). Acquisition of the Tyler School of Fine Arts, the Medical School building, the Oak Lane Country Day School, the Stadium, Carnell Hall, and improvements in other buildings also have taken place since President Henry's inauguration in 1926. Every school has advanced to the coveted A rating. 21

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AMID PROGRESS- WENERABLE as is its history, Philadelphia has not been content to rest on past greatness, hut is constantly demonstrating its progressive spirit During the height of the depression, when other cities were curtailing building, Philadelphia was completing the nation's finest convention hall, and the only post office building accessible by air, water, r.ul and motor: it was extending its municipally owned subway system, and its great port, second in the nation. The city was strengthening its position in industry, giving employment to upwards of $■50,000 busy workers. The three largest radio factories in America are in the Philadelphia area, as well as three of the greatest oil refineries, vast airplane manufacturing plants, and the greatest works for the production of steam and electric locomotives. The Delaware River Bridge (sketched at left by Herbert Puliinger) and the new stream-lined locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad (below) arc among many symbols of the city's progress.

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THE FREE LIBRARY, with .1 book capacity of about 1,500,000, is one of the largest such structures in the world It contains unusual collections of rare hooks on the arts, history of law, and orchestral music. It is headquarters for ?l branches. IN A CITY OF CULTURE- | N graceful structures along the magnificent Parkway arc housed collections and exhibits unexcelled anywhere in the world, with centuries of achievement in literature, art, and science, available for a stroll of a few hours. Temple Seniors voted the Free Library most popular, with the Franklin Institute next preferred. Other notable edifices along this broad highway extending from City Hall to the Art Museum, are the Rodin Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Cathedral, and the Board of Education building. The famed Zoological Gardens, and other museums and exhibits throughout the city, afford unusual cultural opportunities. THE RODIN MUSEUM (right), contains many originals and many recasts of the work of the noted French sculptor. The porch of the Museum is a reproduction of the famous Mu sec at Meudon, in which a similar Rodin collection is housed