ing to degrees. Instruction is offered both to those who wish 
to adopt music as a profession and to such students in the 
College of Arts and Letters as wish to carry certain courses 
for elective credit. The courses are arranged to allow the 
talented student to develop freely along the line of work most 
natural to him and to gain a thoroughly practical, specialized 
training in that direction. Broad literary and artistic 
culture are insisted upon rather than to narrow concentra- 
tion upon one branch of technical work. The 52 students 
who enrolled for the first year were an augury of the success 
that is in store for the School of Music. 
The faculty also maintains a preparatory school with 
three distinct departments—academic, scientific and com- 
mercial —in which multitudes of the youth of the tri-state 
section have not only laid the foundation of successful 
careers as college students and professional men, but have 
received that training in self-reliance, self-control and ideals 
of personal responsibility and service, which it has ever been 
the first ambition of the University authorities to impart. 
The enrollment in the High School in 1926-27 was 645. 
The total student body, including those taking extension 
courses, was 3266 in the year just closed. 
The Holy Ghost Fathers, while entrusting the distinctive 
work of the departments to specialists, maintain the general 
management and control of the University. To them is 
largely due its continued growth. Today its students repre- 
sent every section of the country, and number well over 
three thousand. 
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 
In 1869 there was opened in Woodland Road, one of the 
finest residential situations in Pittsburgh, a college for 
women. Unlike most colleges of that date which began as 
seminaries, Pennsylvania College for Women was incorp- 
orated as a full-fledged college and has given the A. B. degree 
to graduates every year since 1873. 
Although meeting with many difficulties in its develop- 
ment, it remains the only distinctive college for women in 
western Pennsylvania and still keeps its fine Christian