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versity of Pennsylvania. Here he expanded into his 

 true proportions, and took his rank in the highest 

 social and professional circles. He .became an ac- 

 tive member of the Franklin Institute, and with the 

 coterie of devoted men that then influenced its coun- 

 sels and organized its labors, not only laid the founda- 

 tions of its great usefulness, but raised it to that 

 pre-eminence as a widely useful institution, which it 

 has so long- enjoyed, and which it so successfully main- 

 tains. 



When the munificent bequest of Stephen Girard 

 was given to the City of Philadelphia, for the establish- 

 ment of the Girard College, and the plans for organiz- 

 ing that institution were to be prepared, the Directors 

 elected Professor Bache, President of the College. 

 He resigned his chair in the University and accepted 

 the appointment. He immediately proceeded to Eu- 

 rope to visit and study the educational institutions of 

 all kinds then in operation there, and his Report on 

 Education in Europe, made to the Directors on his 

 return, contains a complete account of such insti- 

 tutions, and was the most full exhibition of the sub- 

 jects of which it treated that had up to that time 

 been published. When he returned the College 

 buildings had not been finished, and while awaiting 

 their completion he prepared the plans for and organ- 

 ized the Philadelphia High School, serving some 

 time as its Principal, and bringing to his aid the very 

 men who could enter fully into his plans and aid him in 

 an enterprise which had so much promise of usefulness. 

 He was an admirable orsranizer and the oreat success 

 which has attended the school is due in large measure 

 to the perfection with which he started it. Delays 



