University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Although the School of Fine Arts was officially estab- lished in 1920, instruction in Architecture has been given at the University since 1873. With the growing expansion of the field and the increased enrollmenit of students, the School has been divided into four branches: those of Archi-- tecture, Music, Landscape Architecture, and Fine Arts. There is no school on the campus which can boast of a closer bond and personal relationship between faculty and students. This is mainly due to the very na.ture of the work in which constant cooperation is essential. The School of Fine Arts contains exhibition material on a wide range of subjects. In the library are over 11,000 volumes on the practical and aesthetic, supported by the famous Godfrey Singer Memorial Collection of recorded music and speech which contains over 8,000 discs. All these are available to any University student. Also owned by the Fine Arts School are 190,000 mounted photographs, 16,000 lantern slides, many plates and illustraltions, and subscrip- tions to 73 American and European periodicals. An important aspect of the work of the faculty of Music has been the development of the Choral Society, composed of the Men and Women Glee Clubs. The Society has fre- quently sung with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Phila- delphia, New Y ork, Baltimore, and Washington. THE MOORE SCHOOL In 1923 the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering received a generous bequest through the late Alfred Fitler Moore which actually created the Moore School. Although courses in engineering were available previously for thirty years, the bequest amounting to more than 31,500,000 set up a fund which not only is responsible for the present building, but also creates an endowment for both undergraduate and graduate instruction in electrical engineering and research on the part of fthe faculty and students. The Moore School is exceptionally well equipped for modern electrical research. The library contains nearly all the published books on electrical engineering and many journals. Not only does the school have its own short-wave radio set, but it possesses equipment for research in the basic theories of all co-related fields. -To aid the actual research, there is an extensive ma- chinery laboratory, of which there are only three in the country. The under-graduate curriculum is marked by a two- option course. The Research Option is designed primarily for students interested in the technical side of engineering. The second option, the Industrial Option, is designed for students preparing for less technical positions. oeah X .. ' ir. Of CZ? we Of? Ira CQ CIUSP 0125?-df '56 Af S06 ff oof O O pl: f fi. G K1 his Off JI? f ' r E FQ XGCIIYIQI, 'QU Of P . . G 1 4110660 'XOWY 1 6 ,'1f'C.2,I0'o . . 1 I 1, 0 . Qs omni! J Of

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I -4 r... y . . x..-1 ,- a-G-.wl - ' if . I L .nw .., , . ag . sl SP xo Q. ft WCG Q06 x OK oct A XNO Qfgio x09 SC OUT' Qlwi eh .X we 0 X092 and - e QQ' fx 'N 0 new XF' Oxycl-3-Q off' C wx 'X Q0 We N. l 'Q O OX THE WHARTON SCHOOL Renowned as one of the finest business schools in the country, the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce can well be proud of its outstanding reputation. Founded in 1881 by joseph Wharton, one-time President of Beth- lehem Steel, and a man with immense practical ability, the popularity of the school grew quickly. The student body jumped from only a handful to more than a hundred at the end of ten years. I The Wharton School was originally begun as the Eco- nomic Department of the University of Pennsylvania, but, due to the rising range of subjects devoted to the study of all fields of practical endeavour, emerged in 1912 as a separate department of the University, with its own admin- istrators and ofhcers. The present Dean is Dr. C. Canby Balderston, who was selected for this honored position by the University upon the resignation of Dr. Alfred H. Wil- liams, who is now President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The four year course of the Wharton School, inaugu- rated in the late 189O's, has proven to be a popular institu- tion with students. Alumni believe, just as Joseph Wharton did, that the community needs trained men 3 and the Whar- ton School has proved admirably that its course of business education gives a proper background for the economic life. THE COLLEGE The College may well boast of being one of the oldest schools in all North America, having been founded in 1740. Merged with the Old Charity School in 1749 by Benjamin Franklin, the College has been sending out educated youth ever since. Due to the expansion of the City of Philadelphia, the University has moved three times, its first home at Fourth and Arch being abandoned at the close of the eigh- teenth century, its second at Ninth and Chestnut in 1870, while the present site has been officially the home of the University since 1871. In the history of American education, it is a special distinction of the College that Provost William Smith in 1756 outlined the first liberal curriculum of higher learning in the western world. This new method departed from the traditional, narrowly theological aims, offering various prac- tical courses such as surveying, navigation, accounting, com- merce, government, it also established the first chair of Chemistry in America and was the only University to make formal inclusion of modern languages in its curriculum. Following its tradition to appoint progressive leaders to the revered position of Dean, the University picked Dr. John M. Fogg as the new Dean of the College, in place of Dr. William E. Linglebach who had resigned. 4

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9 K 650 C OX ew YE 050 O? - Q9 QS. C106 gcx S0 3, we Qilkvx o cp ' Nei lb 459 9 C Q 'rx at er L 66600 xixgjx K ago or ' X O N KQOG 6 XX we SC XOY 1 OK Og- - Gam THE TOWNE SCHOOL The Towne Scientific School conducts courses in Chem- istry, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Me- chanical Engineering. These subjects cover many diverse phases and require considerable equipment and research laboratories: consequently the Harrison Laboratory was erected in 1894, to be followed in 1906 by the Engineer- ing Building. The Towne School can feel considerable pride in being one of the oldest scientific schools in the country. Though courses were available since 1850 in UChemistry as applied to the Arts,'l the school actually became an independent part of the University in 1875. Among the buildings devoted to science, there are found many finely equipped laboratories. The Engineering Build- ing has laboratories occupying 32,000 square feet of floor space, laboratories for fuel technology, for materials and hydraulics, for chemical engineering, and machines, pattern- ing, and foundry. This same building also houses smaller laboratories for physical chemistry, fuel calorimetry, metal- lography, heat treatment, photo-electricity, and vibration analysis. In the basement is an electrical substation for regulating the power to the building. The school has a long list of famous graduates, pene- trating every field of scientific endeavour. Provost Edgar Fahs Smith achieved an international reputation for his work on electro-analysis and tungsten, which indirectly led to that metal's use in electric light bulbs. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The professional training of teachers in the University had its inception in 1892 when classes were conducted for teachers who desired more specialized training in various educational fields. Two years later, a Professorship of Edu- cation Was created which may be considered the point at which the School of Education became a separate depart- ment of the University. In 1913, the State Legislature com- menced a series of grants which have considerably facili- tated the development of the school. The School of Education has probably grown more rap- idly in a short period of time than any other part of the University. The need for larger quarters indirectly resulted in the building of Bennett Hall, and culminated in the Illman-Carter School for Kindergarten and Primary School Teachers and the School for Nursing. Along with its physical expansion, the School of Educa- tion has added to its academic courses many new subjects, Art, Music, Physical Education, Home Economics, and Commercial and Vocational subjects are all taught. The most significant event in the history of the course occurred in 1933, when it was reorganized on a five-year basis. This meant that there were only required one-year's graduate work to enable a student to become eligible for a teacher's certificate.