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PHILADELPHIA. 



and are maintained and educated in the institu- 

 tion until eighteen, unless sooner apprenticed 

 to some trade or occupation. The course of 

 study, arranged for eight and a half years, 

 embraces the English and scientific branches, 

 besides French and Spanish. There are 24 

 teachers, and 20 other officers. 



The Polytechnic College of the State of 

 Pennsylvania is situated in Market near Sev- 

 enteenth Street. It was incorporated in 1853. 

 This institution affords instruction in mechan- 

 ics, engineering, geology, mineralogy, chemis- 

 try, mathematics, architecture, drawing, mod- 

 ern languages, book-keeping, etc. 



The University of Pennsylvania occupies 

 fine buildings, recently erected, near Thirty- 

 sixth and Locust Streets, West Philadelphia, 



in two squares of over sixteen acres, compris- 

 ing a hall for the departments of arts, science, 

 and law, the medical hall, and the university 

 hospital. The site of the hospital was present- 

 ed by the city on condition of the maintenance 

 of 53 free beds for the indigent sick. The 

 State granted $200,000 for its establishment, 

 and $350,000 was obtained by subscriptions. 

 The university had its origin in a charitable 

 school, established by subscription in 1745. 

 The institution was founded as an academy in 

 1749, and incorporated in 1755 as "the College, 

 Academy, and Charitable School of Philadel- 

 phia." In 1779 it was erected into a universi- 

 ty, at which time the college separated from 

 it, remaining distinct until 1791, when the 

 present organization of the university was 



UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



established. The medical department was 

 founded in 1765, and the law department in 

 1789. The department of arts affords instruc- 

 tion in the usual collegiate branches, and the 

 department of science in chemistry, mineralo- 

 gy, geology, mining, metallurgy and assaying, 

 engineering, drawing, and architecture. The 

 regular course in each department is four years, 

 but special and partial courses are allowed. 

 Instruction in the medical department is given 

 by the regular faculty and by clinical lecturers 

 in the hospital during the autumn and winter. 

 Instruction is also given during the spring and 

 summer in certain collateral branches of sci- 

 ence, by an auxiliary faculty organized in 1865. 

 The regular course of this department, and in 

 the law department, is two years. In 1874- 

 7o the number of instructors in the depart- 

 ment of arts was 13, and of students 99, of 

 whom 11 were pursuing partial courses; in 

 the department of science there were 18 in- 

 structors and 136 students, of whom 16 were 

 pursuing special and partial courses; in the 

 law department, 5 professors and 59 students 

 in the charity schools, one for boys and one for 

 girls, giving instruction in the English branches 

 3 teachers and 136 pupils. In the medical de- 



partment the regular faculty numbered 11, the 

 auxiliary faculty 5, and the hospital faculty 12; 

 total, deducting repetitions, 24. The number 

 of students in the regular course was 371 ; in 

 the auxiliary course, 101; total, deducting rep- 

 etitions, 390. The whole number of profess- 

 ors in the university, deducting repetitions, 

 was 41 ; of other instructors, 15 ; of students, 

 800. The number*of volumes in the libraries 

 was 18,000. In the department of science 'there 

 are a collection of American fossils and a min- 

 eralogical cabinet, containing 10.000 specimens. 

 The medical department also has a valuable 

 museum and cabinets. 



The Wagner Free Institute of Science, found- 

 ed by Prof. William Wagner, occupies a fine 

 building on the corner of Seventeenth Street 

 and Montgomery Avenue. It was incorpo- 

 rated and opened in 1855; a supplementary 

 act of incorporation was passed in 1864, and 

 in that year the building now occupied was 

 completed. It has a library of 16,000 vol- 

 umes, and its cabinets of minerals, geologi- 

 cal specimens, shells, dried plants, etc., are 

 very valuable. There are 6 professors, and 

 two courses of lectures, attended by from 500 

 to 1,000 persons, are annually delivered on 



