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024 - Intellectual - Chapter 3 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty three of Short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: Harden Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Tatiana Chicchilla Intellectual Chapter three. The University of
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was opened about seventeen seventy and incorporated by the
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  Speaker 1: legislature in seventeen eighty seven under the name Pittsburgh Academy.
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  Speaker 1: In eighteen nineteen, the name was changed to the Western
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  Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania, but holding to the narrower scope of
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  Speaker 1: a college, it did not really become a university until
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety two, when it formed the Department of Medicine
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  Speaker 1: by taking over the Western Pennsylvania Medical College. In eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety five, the departments of law and pharmacy were added,
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  Speaker 1: and women were for the first time admitted. In eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six, the Department of Dentistry was established. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: o eight. July eleventh, the name was changed to the
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  Speaker 1: University of Pittsburgh. The several departments of the university are
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  Speaker 1: at present nineteen oh eight located in different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the city, but a new site of forty three acres
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  Speaker 1: has been acquired near Schenley Park, on which is planned
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  Speaker 1: to bring them all together. These new plans have been
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  Speaker 1: drawn under the direction of the Chancellor, Doctor Samuel Black McCormick,
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  Speaker 1: whose faith in the merit of his cause is bound
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  Speaker 1: to remove whole mountains of financial difficulties. The university embraces
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  Speaker 1: a college and engineering school, a School of mines, a
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  Speaker 1: graduate department, a summer school, evening classes, Saturday classes, besides
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  Speaker 1: departments of astronomy, law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry. It now
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  Speaker 1: has a core of one hundred and fifty one instructors
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  Speaker 1: and a body of one thousand, one hundred thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: students end of Section twenty three