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