BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 

 AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 



By the Hon. Hampton L. Carson, 

 Attorney-General of Pennsylvania. 



[Address delivered in The American Academy of Music, Thursday, April 19] 



Mr. Provost, Members of the Board of Trustees of the 



University of Pennsylvania, Distinguished Guests, 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



On a Sunday morning in October, one hundred and 

 eighty-three years ago, there entered this city — then a 

 town of about six thousand inhabitants — an unwashed, 

 footsore lad — a printer's runaway boy. His only change 

 of clothing was thrust into his pockets, and he munched 

 a roll as he walked up High street. He was without a 

 friend and was four hundred miles from home. The 

 place of his birth and the harbor he had chosen were 

 then inconsiderable clearings in a wilderness which 

 stretched to the westward for three thousand miles, un- 

 known to history and almost unknown to geography. 



Sixty-seven years later, his body was borne to the 

 grave, preceded by the clergy of all denominations. His 

 pall was carried by Governor Mifflin, Chief Justice 

 McKean, and the President of the Bank, Samuel Powell, 



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