UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



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a grant of escheated lands, valued at $66,666.60, was made. No 

 other large appropriation was received until 1871, when the 

 Legislature granted the sum of two hundred thousand dollars 

 for the building of the university hospital. In 1895 another ap- 

 propriation of two hundred thousand dollars was received from 

 the State for the purpose of improving the college department. 

 By this act the Legislature of Pennsylvania gave complete recog- 

 nition to the university as a State institution, and at the same 



William Pepper, LL. D., 

 Provost of the University from January 12, 1881, to June 7, 1894. 



time widened its sphere of usefulness. Mr. Charles C. Harrison 

 succeeded to the provostship in 1894, and he at once outlined a 

 liberal policy in an appeal for an endowment fund of five million 

 dollars. 



The demand for a special kind of education has been promptly 

 met by the university by the multiplication of new courses of 

 study, three hundred and thirty courses having been offered dur- 

 ing the past year. The courses are arranged in elective groups, 

 and the degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred on graduates who 



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