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the building committee, and work on the hospital was pushed so 

 rapidly that it was ready for patients on July 15, 1874. 



When Dr. Charles J. Stille resigned the provostship of the 

 university in 1881, Dr. Pepper was elected as his successor. The 

 executive abilities which he had displayed in connection with the 

 founding of the new hospital made him the natural choice of the 

 trustees. Although his private practice had increased to immense 

 proportions, besides being occupied with his duties as a clinical 

 professor, Dr. Pepper accepted the provostship. To the duties of 

 this office he devoted the best years of his life. The extent of his 

 practice and the demands made upon his time by the university 

 would have appalled an ordinary man, but his capacity for labor 

 appeared to be without limit, his working day often exceeding 

 eighteen hours. His administration was characterized by the uni- 

 fication of the various schools of the university, besides the found- 

 ing and equipment of several new departments. In one of his 

 annual reports Dr. Pepper defined the broad policy of the uni- 

 versity in the following appropriate language: "The university is 

 truly the voluntary association of all persons and of all agencies 

 w'lio wish to unite in work for the elevation of society by the pur- 

 suit and diffusion of truth." * In other words. Dr. Pepper re- 

 garded the functions of the university as not simply an institution 

 of instruction, but also of research. To this end every effort was 

 made to open up new fields of investigation and to widen the scope 

 of the university. During his provostship thirteen new buildings 

 were erected, and the following departments, or schools, were or- 

 ganized: 



1. The Department of Finance and .Economy. 



2. The Department of Philosophy. 



3. The Department of Veterinary Medicine. 



4. The Department of Biology. 



5. The Department of Physical Education. 



6. The Department of Archaeology and Paleontology. 

 1. The Department of Hygiene. 



8. The Graduate Department for Women. 



9. The School of Architecture. 



10. The School for Nurses in the University Hospital. 



11. The Veterinary Hospital. 



12. The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. 



Dr. Pepper took particular interest in the Department of Ar- 

 chrpology and Paleontology connected with the university. For a 

 number of years he was president of its board of trustees, while it 



* Report of the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, from October, 1892, to June, 

 1894. Philadelphia, 1894. 



