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:: University of Pittsburgh

Collection:: Economics Books

great Cathedral of Learning, under construction by the University of Pittsburgh, surrounded by many present uni- versity buildings. Not far away is the Pitt Stadium. There has been standing for many years the magnificent St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, one of the really great ecclesiastical edifices in the United States. Many fine churches of other denominations are in view. Schenley Park lies in the district, with its beautiful forests and fields and lakes, in which is located Phipps conservatory. Imme- diately adjoining are the many buildings of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institute. Not far away is the fine building of the United States Bureau of Mines. Other important buildings in this great civic center include the Allegheny County Soldiers’ Memorial, Eighteenth Regiment Armory, administration building of the Board of Public Education, in process of erection, Schenley High School, Catholic High School, Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind, Syria Mosque, Masonic Hall, Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- search, University Club, Twentieth Century Club, Children’s Hospital, Knights of Columbus and the Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association buildings. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH The ever-increasing educational interest of the Pitts- burgh community, and of western Pennsylvania, is perhaps nowhere so adequately expressed as in the expansion of the university which bears the city’s name. One hundred forty-one years ago, in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh had its beginning. It was known as Pittsburgh Academy. Pittsburgh at that time was a frontier trading post, with less than a thousand inhabitants, but one of its foremost interests was education. Judge Hugh Henry Brackenbridge, a graduate of Princeton, enlisted the cooperation of leading clergymen and other public and professional men in establishing an academy and on February 28, 1787, a charter was obtained and the academy incorporated. Today that academy has grown to be one of the three universities in Pennsylvania. and

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