should offer a substantial program, not limited to any one 
field, in a downtown location. It is also believed that this 
expansion is demanded by the University’s growing program 
of service to its community.” 
The summer sessions of the University have also shown 
steady growth. The 1927 session which marked the twenty- 
first year of the summer session enrolled nearly 2500. Compe- 
tent instructors from the University of Pittsburgh and other 
institutions offered courses from J uly 5 to August 12. The 
purpose of the summer school, as expressed in the bulletin, 
is “to meet the needs of those preparing for teaching as well 
as of those in other fields who can avail themselves of the 
opportunity the summer affords for further study.” There 
are courses for those working towards teachers’ certificates, 
for those who wish a higher certificate, for those wishing to 
take regular University work, or for those who wish to attend 
for the purely cultural value. Summer session courses were 
also conducted at Johnstown and Erie. 
The Extension Division, gives courses in towns scattered 
from Erie to Morgantown, and Altoona to Steubenville. It 
is the aim of this division to bring higher education to the 
very door of citizens unable to attend the University proper. 
The Division provides speakers, conducts surveys, offers 
academic courses, runs a teachers’ appointment bureau, and 
acts as a general clearing house for community educational 
problems. The recently established Johnstown Junior Col- 
lege and the Erie Center are under the direction of the 
Extension Division. 
The proposed medical center, in which the University of 
Pittsburgh school of medicine will have teaching privileges, 
is a forward step in furthering the medical profession. Such 
a center will contain a group of teaching hospitals, dispensary 
facilities, nurses’ training school and home; administrative, 
library, laboratory, and lecture room facilities. Each unit 
of the proposed group will preserve its own identity and 
management, cooperating only for teaching and laboratory 
service and economy of administration. Of this proposed 
medical center, the Children’s Hospital is the first building 
actually erected. The Elizabeth Steel Magee Maternity 
Hospital is already closely affiliated with the University.