University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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MR. WIU.1AM TIIAW UR. J A BRASH FAR The 1911 Owl Point which was yesterday invisible is to-I day its starting point and to-morrow will be A its goal. This statement was made in regard to the philosophy of I-ord Bacon: apply it to the educational facilities of the University of Pittsburgh and one is enlightened with the versification of a conclusive principle. Front a small, inadequate building, situated on the corner of Third street and Cherry alley, the progress of the embryo institution was marked by prodigious leaps ami bounds until to-day it stands as the conceptive monument of the educational advantages of the city of Pittsburgh. What indefatigable efforts those made to promulgate the establishment of the germ! Bair, Finley. Powers. Steele. Swift. Stockton, men whose active energy and predominant wills overcame the apparently insurmountable objects barring their path. Bewildered by litigation, confused by pecuniary difficulties, they sustained the last remnants until under the able leadership of Mr. Hopkins, of Princeton, a reaction was effected. Under this energetic man the institution assumed a new lease of life and attained an unexpected and gratifying efficiency. Closely seconding his efforts came Rev. Stockton, who placed the Academy in a higher state of efficiency than Mr. Hopkins. He was a man of great Thirltn