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
