been actively associated with the headmaster, Mr. Wilder, 
in the administration of Arnold School and its predecessor 
since 1917. These administrators are supported by a faculty 
of eleven men and two women. 
The trustees of the school are: H. V. Blaxter, Arthur V. 
Davis, Joseph W. Kennedy, G. C. Kimball, W. B. Klee, 
Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann, D.D., John S. McCormick, T. 
E. McMurray, M.D., William L. Monro, J. W. Oliver, 
Cornelius D. Scully, J. Ramsey Speer, George R. Wallace, 
R. E. Withers, J. Merrill Wright. 
Officers of the Board of Trustees are: president, G. C. 
Kimball; vice-presidents, H. V. Blaxter and R. E. Withers; 
treasurer, J. Merrill Wright; secretary, George F. Whitman. 
Executive Committee—G. C. Kimball, president (Ex-officio), 
H. V. Blaxter; George F. Whitman, secretary (Ex-officio), 
W. B. Klee, J. Merrill Wright, J. S. McCormick, R. E. 
Withers. 
DUFFS-IRON CITY COLLEGE 
Duff’s College is the pioneer business training school in 
America. Few Pittsburghers realize the distinction that 
came with the establishment of this institution in 1839, when 
our fair city was about one-half square mile in area. The 
history of the growth of Pittsburgh and of Duff’s College 
over more than a four score of years testify to the propriety 
of the slogan, “Pittsburgh Promotes Progress”. 
Peter Duff, the founder of Duff’s College, was born in 
New Brunswick, Canada, in 1802. Early in life he became a 
prosperous merchant in St. Johns; but a conflagration in 
1835 made him and many others bankrupt. After turning 
over all he had to his creditors, he set out in search of fortune 
anew in a strange land. 
On his way to New Orleans, he was detained at Pitts- 
burgh because of low water. His finances likewise being at 
low tide, he tried to get work in the offices of the various busi- 
ness houses of the day. Bookkeeping was not then, as it is 
now, a system, but his knack for systemization so impressed 
the business men that he was induced to begin private