Student Life at Pennsylvania.
It is needless to trace the development of the university
through the years that followed its birth. By constantly
gathering strength and enlarging its range of instruction,
Pennsylvania stands to-day one of the strongest and most
famous schools in our land.
Space allows but for the merest mention of the history
of the several departments which make up the university.
First,—because of its age and of its position as the real
heart of the whole body, stands the College, consisting of the
courses in Finance, Economy, Architecture, the Arts, Chem
istry, Biology, and Music. Quite as important is the Medical
school, probably the most famous of all the departments.
This was founded as early as 1751 and its entire life has
been a most healthy one, as is readily illustrated by its
13,000 graduates and the name it bears over the entire world.
The Dental department has been in operation since 1873
and has been especially strong since the erection of the
beautiful Dental Hall in 1897. Another course, and one
rapidly growing in importance, is the Law school, founded
in 1790, and strengthened by the revision of its course and the
erection of a building for its use, within late years. Besides
these several departments there is the school of Veterinary
Medicine, the department of Archaeology, and the interest
ing institutions as those of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy
and Biology, the University Museum, the Howard Houston
Hall, Franklin Field, and the Dormitories.
But we must be off. The conductor of our Walnut
street car shouts, ''Thirty-fourth street" and, on jumping .
off, we find ourselves in the comparatively ciniet locality of
West Philadelphia, and in the midst of the university build
ings, which have been located here since 1873. On our left,
as we enter the eastern gate we see the massive Library
building, and, were we to pass into its well arranged and
pleasant interior, we would catch a glimpse of its 200,000
volumes. Looking back, as we stand at its entrance we see