University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Medalion Room . Its beauty and massiveness, combined with form and order, made a tribute to the character of Pittsburgh which would attempt to show the city’s values. This dramatic approach excited the emotions of many thousands of Pittsburghers, adults, and school children alike, who contributed in 1926 the funds they could give, fully approving the ideas that the building was designed to advance.

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 Western Psychiatric Hospital had a log-hewn academy before the .signing of the Constitution, but of a treasury for learning where the youth of Pittsburgh could find, grown out of the early struggles of creative and energetic Pittsburghers, new courage, imagination, adaptability—new spiritual and mental power. The Cathedral of Learning, as the new edifice and symbol of the University became known throughout the world, was built tall, not merely because height meant less material expense, but because it expressed the infinite, the unlimited span of knowledge and education possible within its walls.

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Heinz Chapel Engineering Hall Schcnley Room The Cathedral was dedicated to the youth of Pittsburgh iu 1937, exactly 150 years after the founding of that first rustic cabin. It was then that the symbol of the candle of enlightenment—carried to this day in the University’s seal—was originated. The next two years saw two beautiful additions to the Gothic Cathedral’s impressiveness: the Stephen Foster Memorial, built in 1937 in appreciation of that native Pittsburgher’s contribution to the music of our country, and in the spring of 1938, Heinz Chapel, a perfect example of Western man’s dedication to strength in faith and wisdom in meditation. In the University’s athletic history, the charter of Pitt Stadium, built near Pennsylvania Ilall, was approved in 1924, and the huge bowl soon rang to cheers of Pitt victories during the “Jock Sutherland Era.” It is important to Panther strength at present as well as being used for several civic events throughout the year. With a record for good, skillful playing in past sports, the University completed December 15, 1951, the Memorial Field House, a $1,500,000 building with an indoor field, ball courts, and gymnasia to promote future athletic successes. 13