The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Duquesne University

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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