Post-graduate courses in the various branches were also organized.ĭr. The School of Mining Engineering was established by the State in 1897. About the same time the Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy became a part of the University and shortly afterwards the School of Dental Surgery was founded. In 1895 the Western Pennsylvania Medical College was absorbed by the University, becoming its Medical School. a distinguished author of well-known works on Civil Engineering. A little later the Engineering School was started under Dean Carhart. 'I'he year 1885 was marked by the founding of the I.aw School. Goff liecaine Chancellor, and under his guidance several new buildings were erected on the Allegheny site. During his administration the institution was moved to another location. The institution advanced with rapid strides in the acquisition of material resources.ĭr. George Woods was officially termed Chancellor of the University in 1858. A new home was erected in 1857 and the University began a new era of usefulness to society. In 1845 the buildings were burned to the ground. Commonwealth Courts, eighteen Trustees of Colleges, five College Presidents, thirteen Professors, three Moderators of General Assemblies, five Editors and two authors of wide reputation.
The university continued for 27 years and among the alumni of that ! eriod were.-one I nited States Senator, four Representatives, three Chief Justices, two Governors, one Ambassador, two Judges of the I nited State ami Among the student hotly the same generosity prevailed. Associate Presbyterian and Romanists worked together at a time when denominational rivalry was so keen. The first faculty was very catholic in regard to its members-Presbyterian, Reformed. “The Western University of Pennsylvania." This was approved in 1819. Such was the prosperity of the Academy at the close of the second decade of the last century that the manifest necessity for the establishment in this community of an institution of higher learning gave birth to a movement to rcincorporatc the Academy as. All of these men whose names appear as incorporators were graduates of Princeton and pioneers in the cause of education, through whose labors subsequently Washington and Jefferson came into being.
The incorporators were men of affairs and prominence at that time and their activity in founding the school was but one of many examples of their public spirit. a classmate of President James Madison at Princeton, secured the enactment of a law incorporating the Pittsburgh Academy as a seat of learning. In that little settlement of pioneers, where the MonongaheJa and Allegheny Rivers join and form the Ohio, as early as 1770 there was a school house which was to be known later as Pitts. Secretary of the I 'niversity of rittsburghClNIC must turn hack one hundred and twenty-six pages in the year hook of Father Time to look upon the beginning of the University of Pittsburgh, the oldest University in the United States west of the Alleghenies. Chancellor of the University of UittsburyhSamuki. Thy wealth we squander far abroad Thine upward path of destiny. In love of show and civic gaud, The winning fight for truth and thee.įor alien brows Thy cruse we broach, God give thee faith to keep aright We buy world-laughter and reproach God give thee champions to fight Thou giv’st beyond great rubies’ price, God rear thy temples on the height,Ī niggard alms we grudge to Thee Loosen thy burdens, set them free. Thy lavish palms, our avarice.Ěnd guard thee in thine hour of need On in they triumph mounting higher To thunderous songs no storm can quell. O warder of Pircnc’ well How long shall scorn and churlish penceĠ pioneer of hearts’ desire.ěe bartered for thine opulence? ’Gainst scourge of flame and jealous thrust Hast reared Thy pillared citadel In whose fair strength our hope is found. Thy sapphire eyes thought-starred with light Strong limbed and goddess molded, free,Īnd ’neath thy fountain brests close bound With cinctures of self mastery Hear thou the song we sing for Thee The love of those whose hearts are thine. Snatched from a world of gArnered wheat, O hungered tender of the vineĠ thirst-irked treaderout of wine Red crushed for others’ revelry, THE “OWL" of THE CLASS of 1914Alma Mater Thc Junior Class of the University of PittsburghDEDICATION Text from Pages 1 - 470 of the 1914 volume: “
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