University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE CAMPUS N RECORDING the various events and activities that go to make up the college P J: U. , E- V ran- fi at X Q .,,. . ,ff-QQ-A ,- - Q , -5-4 --uv-Fggff .J ,fe-fffv lv - g an f-- ELFWQQ . Quia rmat. D. ,, jfcgxfff 15 1 l. '34 V1-A Y . . . , - kkay, JE ,L , . x. i .f,. .I T . wil Y,-it A 0 9 -:JW 4 . A 1 Iv ,. I, Jim 4 5 I ..l . f days of the Pennsylvania graduate, it T . seems only htting to pause for a moment and in. consider the campus which gave birth to so many of these happenings. Day after day the if undergraduates cross back and forth over the grounds from one building to another, some air hurrying to classes, some lingering on their way, while others walk along steadily staring L 'i into space with their minds on distant thingsg E but during these days few give more than a 3 passing thought to the soil over which they F are walking. lt is only when their short stay l at the University is finished and they set out The Lil 'W into a new world that they realize how dear each little nook has been to them. They recall pleasant memories, and each ivy-covered building looms up as a monument to their .once-happy days. The former hard-looking walls and stony structures fflslflg, soften in their memory as they link them up with past experiences never again to be repeated. The campus is indeed a storeroom of rich recollections for the graduate who leaves his' former abode after a brief four years or sog but in reality he has taken away with him, through his contacts, only a very little. There is much about the Jn campus of which he has just a 'Wg ,H , . . Hifi 5 f 5 . hazy conception. Before his day P'-ee 4 P other Pennsylvania men have trod its grounds and helped to build up its traditions, and after he is gone future sons of the Alma Mater will frequent its walks and add to its glories. Concerning the campus of Epi years to come, one can have but P one's own faulty conception. Probably -many of the older ii structures will crumble and new y'. gggg i and more stately ones will fill ,Q The Museum Courtyard their places 3 probably new, and Cai 25:22 W lil iff: '77 i IVA 5 fill?fifilfiilfiiiililk F f lil 'i fn.: v:l , ., - ,. 'V e...-.2-PM-...,,,.,-,-c...,-A+.--..finA.-. - -. --:AI 13 It-A rw.. H ..

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f X 1' .1 : l 15 yet unht 1rd of adx ances in tduc ItIOI'12ll possibilities 11 ill give rirer mafrnihcence possibly the h xnds of time xx ill so change the entire outlay of the once fami liar grounds 'is to make them unrecovnizable or it may even be that the present site of the University will go completely out of existence All of this is extremely uncertain But with Harmon reference to the past one can bring to light scores of rich traditions and long buried interests by merely leafinfr through the pages of history, even though numerous 'ind invaluable memories remain lost to all save those that hold them In comparison with the University itself, the campus is still young for while nearly two centuries have passed slnce Hrst this institution had 1tS beginning it has been only some Hfty years that the present West Philadelphia site has embodied so famed a school of education. lt is but necessary to go back to the year of 1873 to find the first Graduating class from the then new buildings while in the Class of 76 one Hnds the Hrst group to complete an entire four years in thehnew quarters. D While a half century in this day of speed and progress seems as a mere cog in H - 1. 1 o 4 1 ffl Ei-1,Q:-a12:3e1:5X?5Pig-Tllfilgls 31122225 Cf U R.Dr . We D 'U Viv X W I 2, - l,1, z ' AL - , ff l . ,aff rise to additional edihces of 1 Q QQ . . ' E f O 4 :aff . ' 1 af' vg- .vl f O . . ' , '- 13:2 1 1 iff: ' C '66 . t . V 2' D l . ' 5.2! c 1 , 1' -Q . . . 7 i l V i lv' J . .y A '? .A . . . . . . ' 1 zz: ',,l I A . . . . V. . . . . , . 0 F N ' ' ' ' I '. Mx 1 bg 1 gl u D D , 1 9 f 9 xl I g 1 la - the wheels of time, still it is surprising, if not astounding, to compare the Uni- ga versity and its campus of today with the same of fifty years ago. The twenty- jan three members in the Class of 1875 could occupy about three buildings apiece on the present campus, while the seventeen hundred students that were 'ryu V ' graduated from the University in ' 5 the Class of 1926 might' be some- rj ','l- 3 what crowded in the two or three Q31 structures that composed the lf? i campus for the 75,S. yi Back in the 70,8 the campus ,514 consisted of just fifteen and a ighi I ' half acres of ground. An increase J A to more than fifty acres in the two decades that followed seems if rather great, but if the under- yi graduate of today looks about him ' -,ff The D,,,mS in Wim, he can see that goodly expansions f W l 14 Ir--