University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE SENIOR CLASS

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THE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE RECORD '52 QE. tu '05 CEE. Do you think what fifty years may do for you, for the College and for the University? I graduated in 1852, with twenty others, and Fifteen for one cause or other had left College without graduating. The Faculty counted about ten-in those days Provost and Vice-Provost were part of the teaching force, and with Provost Ludlow and Vice-Provost Vethake, there were Henry Reed teaching English Literature and History, George Allen teaching Greek and Latin,with first, Arthur and later Francislackson assisting, Frazer teaching Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, and asuccession of German and French teachers, and occasional lectures in various voluntary courses. It was a case of 11011 111111111 ,ml IIlIl!fIlllI 'OI1C had few subjects, and few teachers, but they were very thorough and mostly very good. The only recognized College Societies were Philo and Zelo, and I think the Phi Kappa Sigma was the first, and for a long time the only secret society, much antagonized by the Faculty, and frowned down by the old Literary and De- bating Societies. Block programmes on Commencement Day and other rare College functions were the only outlet for students' fun, and pretty rough and riotous it was. Commencement was exclusively a College celebration, for Nledical and Law had theirs apart-and occasional Alumni Dinners were held in November quite outside of the College. We were housed, some two hundred students, in the North Building on Ninth Street near Market, and under the same roof were the Law School, the Literary Societies and the Library, and that was all easily accommodated in one room in which Faculty K-leetings were held, and all we ever saw of the Library was when we were summoned before the Faculty for all sorts of offences. In the South Building was the Department of Medicine, strong in numbers and in its Faculty, and we were occasional listeners to Wood or Horner or Leidy or Rogers or some other famous teacher, and now and then we were smuggled into the dissecting room or the Wistar Anatomical Nluseum. In the small Campus between, there were occasional class rows or even struggles with Nledical men, and once or twice with bold High School men from their Building on Juniper Street near lvlarket, and when we were very bold, we met them ftheir numbers were far greater than oursl in H Centre Square I Life for the students was uneventful and torpid, and so was College life everywhere then. There is a story that one of the Trustees said fin earlier days than mine even? to Provost Clater Bishopl DeLancey, H Pm told the College is looking upfl U Then,'l answered the Provost, Hit must be on its back. So the College, even in the eyes of Trustee and Provost crept on, until the awakening under Provost Stilleg the removal to West Philadelphia, the new life under Provost Pepper, and the splendid development of College and University and all its departments under Provost Harrison and Vice-Provost Smith. And may Nineteen Five be one of their many great graduating classes. C'7'EJ'Cllf,f07'EH1f er viwat Nineteen Five. if fV z - JUNIORES PRIORES:

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3 CEZIRSS Qbffirnrs l'1'u:iffs:1l HARVEY BIRCI-l.-XRD 'IQAYLOR fire-l'1'r:irle11l SAx1L'l2L. BR.-xv WH12'1's'rONE Sufrrlary NIAGRl.'l.JER CRAIG!-IEAD Treasllrcr JOHN AUGUs'1'us BOERS Hixlorian FRANK NIACKNIGHT GRAY Execulive Cammillee JARED SPERRY BOGARDUS JOHN ARTHUR BROWN ROBERT CASWELL CROWELI. FREDERICK VVARREN NIARSHALI.