University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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vears ago: 0W ,' behind. The e thirties WC militarY 3cm . determination W, 30125 . . . j; In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Philadelphia to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the University of Pennsylvania. Here he is shown receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. The Presidenths address on this occasion is among his more famous speeches. What the President had to say on that day twelve years ago may as readily and as easily been written today, for even then we were in the midst of a strange period of relapse in the history of the civilization of the world? He stated, iifor in some lands it has become the custom to burn the books of scholars and to iix by government decree the nation,s form of religion, and morality, and culture, and education . . f, It is fitting that at :1 time like this, we should pause to remember what a great statesman said under similar circumstances :1 decade ago. He urged, . . . This is no time for any man to zuifbu'il'aw info some ivory fewer and proclaim the right to himself to hold 3100f from the problems, yes, and the agonies of his society. iiThe times call for bold belief, belief from the past, yes, and belief in the future, that the world can be changed by manis endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. . . . Wre cannot always build the future for our youth; we can build the youth for the future? . Here, in this free and independent institution of scholarship? the University of Pennsylvania, we strive to realize what the late President Roosevelt set :15 our task to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.H

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Even as the University was approaching its two-hundredth anniversary, it was still in a state of steady growth. In 1922, thirty years ago, Franklin Field was yet to be completed. Irvine Auditorium was not added to our campus until 1929. The new chemistry building went up in 1936. Some of our other buildings, however, have behind them a long and proud history. College Hall was built in 1872, celebrating its niversary this year, and the library, whose present structure dates from 1891, observed its bicentennial last year. It is in this mixed atmosphere of old and new, that the University finds itself today, inaugurating a new era in its development with the construction of Dietrich Hall. Here the newest building on our ever- growing campus will hOuse the oldest business school in the nation, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. For all the change that the world has brought to Pennsylvaniis campus, to its men Penn will always be the same. Edgar M. Dilley proudly expressed his devotion to the lasting strength of our Alma Mater in his anthem, uHail Pennsylvanisz written Sixty years ago: Majesty as a crown rests on thy brow; Pride, Honor, Glory, Love, before thee bow. N1eer shall thy spirit die, thy walls decay; Hail! Pennsylvania! For thee we pray. eightieth an When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor ten years a 0 sons were called into battle, leaving their books behinf , git frivolity of the twenties and the peace of the thirties w e ?bruptly ended. The campus was lively with a militar actfare my and its men took on a serious air and a solemn deterniinatihh- Wridc, ffzmm: glory, A cap-acity crowd thrilled to the plays of the Penn-Navy game of 1922. Thous- ands Jammed the half-completed Franklin Field which was still without its upper stands. Thirty years later Franklin Field overflows with some 75 000 spectators in what was once the world,s largest foodbull stadium. ,

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Today Hwe Universily finds IJrselIC in We midsl of an afomic age. The seriousness of flue Jrlmes lran- scends all lesser problems, Hue dralf and world conlllcl Jrllrealen our academic and social life more Jrhan ever. bul flue old lvy slones of pasf years give us hope +ha+ lhe Universily ol Pennsyl- vania will survive flue nexl hundred years as well as she has +he pasf hundred. Fralernilies have emerged as We nucleus of our social acfivily and foolball slill reigns as lhe king of collegiale sporfs. The museum. Jrlwrougll flue specimens il acquires. conllnues lo discover more aboul flue ancienl world. while lhe campus ilsell begins +0 lake on flue appearance of a more mode em school of He lulure. Though Jrl'le years bring changes in our mode ol living al Penn. we are conllclenl lhal lhe class of 2052 will agree Wlll'l us when we say lhal lhe four years we spend al Pennsylvania are among ll1e besl of our lives. -,-- w..-a-.-a..-R-M-VwW.-WWM v -.., m PENNSYLVANIA TC THE MAIN ENTRANCE +0 +he men's dormifories is a? +he corner of 37+h Slreef and Woodland A v e n u e. Trolleys rumbling by, frucks roaring +hrougl1 and pedes- +rians +rying +0 dash across +he sfreef befween liglnl c l1 a n g e 5 makes +his one of +he mosf danger- ous corners for +he sludent