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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The School of Mines Building of the University of Pittsburgh, 

 the first to be erected on the new site. 



comprises the following departments: 

 college, graduate, observatory, summer 

 school, Saturday and evening classes, 

 engineering, mining, medicine, den- 

 tistry, law and pharmacy. 



The students in the regular classes 

 during the past year have numbered 

 1.129. Those taking special work were 

 114, making a total of 1,24a, The 

 region in which the university is now 

 located is remarkable because of the 

 large number of fine buildings housing 

 various educational and other institu- 

 tions of the city. It bids fair to be- 

 come one of the famous centers of the 

 country. 



The former buildings of the college 

 and engineering school have been sold 

 and the proceeds placed in the perma- 



nent fund of the university. During 

 the past year nearly $300,000 have been 

 raised by popular subscription. The 

 first charter of the university was 

 granted in 1787. The present year 

 marks practically the first consolida- 

 tion of the several departments under 



| the absolute ownership and control of 



j the university. 



THE PERCY SLADEN MEMORIAL 

 FUND 

 In 1904 Mrs. Percy Sladen endowed 

 with £20,000 a trust fund for the 

 furtherance of research in the natural 

 sciences in memory of her husband, 

 who had died four years previously. 

 The trustees of this fund, who are 

 themselves men of science, are allowed 



