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JiEV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 



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the college had been injured past power of any Restoring or Re- 

 pealing Act to remedy. The University of the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania was still in existence; a concurrent, indeed, a rival institu- 

 tion. Both could not surviv^e — that much was plain. It was 

 doubtful if even one could live. An union was agreed on. A 

 new Board of Trustees — one-half from the Board of each institu- 

 tion; and so in 1791 the union was effected. Dr. Smith drawing 

 with his own hand the charter by which they were to be consoli- 

 dated. 



The Trustees were these : 



FROM THE COLLEGE. 



The Rt. Rev. Wm. White, D. D., 



The Rev. R. Blackwell, D. D., 



Edward Shippen, 



William Lewis, 



Robert Hare, 



Samuel Powell, 



David H. Conyngham, 



William Bingham, 



Thomas Fitzsimons, 



George Clymer, 



Edward Burd, 



Samuel Miles. 



FROM THE UNIVERSITY. 



Thomas McKean, 



Charles Pettit, 



James Spraat, 



Frederick Kuhl, 



John Bleakly, 



John Carson, 



Jonathan Bayard Smith, 



David Rittenhouse, 



Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, 



David Jackson, 



James Irwin, 



Jared Ingersoll. 



The new institution was called the University of Pennsylvania. 

 I do not know that Dr. Smith desired the Provostship of it. The 

 new institution bore plainly within it the seeds of weakness and 

 long-continuing inefficiency. With every effort to make homo- 

 geneity in the Board there was none; as any one acquainted with 

 the history of families and men in old Philadelphia will see as he 

 compares the columns above given. In the column from the Col- 

 lege he sees the old aristocracy of the province and the old 

 Church of England, in the other Presbyterianism and the Revolu- 

 tion — with some exceptions, the Democratic side of both. More 

 than all, a long and bitter conflict had been endured, and 



" Never could true reconcilement grow 



Where wounds of deadly hate had pierced so deep." 



Whether Dr. Smith would have accepted the Provostship or not, 

 Dr. Ewing was elected to it. The connection of the former with 



