PENNSYLVANIA 



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PENNSYLVANIA 



in American History; Fisher's Making of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Related Subject*. The following articles con- 

 tain much additional information as to Pennsyl- 

 vania : 



CITIES 



Allentown 



Altoona 



Beaver Falls 



Bethlehem 



Braddock 



Bradford 



Bristol 



Butler 



Carbondale 



Carlisle 



Carnegie 



Chambersburgj 



Charleroi 



Chester 



Coatesville 



Columbia 



Connellsville 



Dickson City 



Du Bois 



Dunmore 



Duquesne 



Easton 



Edwardsville 



Erie 



Parrel 1 



Franklin 



Green sburg 



Harrisburg 



ton 



Homestead 

 Johnstown 

 Lancaster 

 Lansford 

 Larksvllle 

 Latrobe 

 Lebanon 

 Lewistown 

 Lock Haven 

 McKeesport 



McKees Rocks 



Mahanoy City 



Meadville 



Monessen 



Mount Carmel 



Nanticoke 



New Castle 



Norristown 



North Braddock 



Oil City 



Old Forge 



Olyphant 



Philadelphia 



Phoenixville 



Pittsburgh 



Pittston 



Plymouth 



Pottstown 



Pottsville 



Punxsutawney 



Reading 



Scranton 



Shamokin 



Sharon 



Shenandoah 



South Bethlehem 



Steelton 



Sunbury 



Tamaqua 



Taylor 



Uniontown 



Warren 



Washington 



West Chester 



Wilkes-Barre 



Wilkinsburg 



Williamsport 



York 



HISTORY 



Brandywine, Battle of 

 the 



Mn, Benjamin 

 Germantown. Battle of 

 Gettysburg, Battle of 



Mason and Dixon's Line 

 Penn, William 

 Valley Forge 

 Wyoming Valley 

 Massacre 



Buckwheat 



Butter 



Cement 



O MM 



Coal 



Coke 



Corn 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Leather 



Petroleum 



Potato 



Poultry 



Bttti 



PHYSICAL rBATURM 



Appalachian Mountains Delaware Water Gap 

 Blue Ridge 



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Allegheny Ohio 



Delaware Schuylklll 



Lehlgh Suaquehanna 



ngahela 



PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF, one of the 

 largest and most influential universities in the 

 United States, the outgrowth of a charitable 

 school founded in 1740 in Philadelphia. Through 

 the activity of Benjamin Franklin and the ef- 



THE UNIVERSITY IN 1765 



forts of a group of other public-spirited citi- 

 zens, this school was made an academy in 17.M. 

 Two years later it received a charter from the 

 son and the grandson of William Penn, and in 

 1755 was rechartered as the College and 

 Academy of Philadelphia. In 1791 the present 

 institution, which represents a merger of the 

 old college and a university provided by act of 

 legislature in 1779, was incorporated under the 

 title University of Pennsylvania. The campus, 

 since 1872, has been on a site near the west 

 bank of the Schuylkill. 



The university is organized into the follow- 

 ing departments: the College; the School of 

 Arts (arts and science, biology and music) ; 

 the Wharton School of finance and commerce; 

 the Towne Scientific School, in which are of- 

 fered courses in architecture, mechanical, chem- 

 ical, electrical and civil engineering, science and 

 technology ; a school of education ; the depart- 

 ments of philosophy, or the graduate school; 

 the departments of law, medicine, dentistry and 

 veterinary medicine; the University Hospital; 

 the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology; 

 the Laboratory of Hygiene; the Veterinary 

 Hospital; the Henry Phipps Institute (for 

 study and treatment of tuberculosis) ; the Psy- 

 chological Clinic, the Library and the Flower 

 Astronomical Observatory; the department of 

 physical education; and the University Mu- 

 Hum, 



The government of the institution is vested 

 in a board of twenty-four trustees, of win Hi tin- 

 president ex offieio is the governor of the state ; 

 tli. university chief executive is called th. 



