University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Andrew Jackson Kelly, Jr. President of the Commonwealth Real Rstate Company. Member of the Pitta-burn h Chamber of Commerce, and of the Board of Trustee of the University. The man who planned and directed the campaign for securing the fund for the Second Building

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Vr Samuel Black McCormick, D. D., LL. D. Chancellor The man who has made the Greater University possible.

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The OWL teie THE ACADEMY TIIK PRESIDENT'S IIOl'SE THE I'NIVKKSITY HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY HE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH is the oldest institution of learning. with one exception (the University of Nashville), in the United States, west of the Appalachian mountain ranges. The early pioneers who crossed the Alleghenies, and settled at the forks of the Monongahcla and Allegheny rivers, brought with them the same ideals which were fixed in the minds of the Plymouth settlers. As soon as homes were built, they turned their thoughts toward the welfare of their children. Relieving “that the education of youth ought to be a primary object with every government, a school was started as early as 1770. which was to Ik- known a few years later, as the Pittsburgh Academy. An act of legislature, incorporating the school, was passed in 1787. The incorporators were men of affairs ami prominence at that time, and their activity in founding the school was just one of the many examples of their public spirit—cs| ccially along educational lines. Not content with starting the first 7