Word: provost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week, the Provost has announced an anonymous gift of $200,000, which is to be expended in building a physical laboratory...
...annual report of Provost C. C. Harrison to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the year ending August 31, 1897, which has just been published, shows a year of advancement, extension, and general improvement in nearly every department. The provost, commenting on the fact that the university gave aid to the amount of over $50,000 to 331 students, says that the question of free tuition is a very serious one, and that scholarships should be applied for by the student only as the last resort...
...provost urges that the average age of young men entering college is still too high. This has a tendency to turn students into the professional schools without a preliminary college course. He closes with a reference in detail to the many needs of the university and urges generous consideration of its purposes from friends, alumni and from the state...
...social needs of the students was inaugurated by the Y. M. C. A. of the university on December 18, 1892, at a mass meeting of the students. After subscription pledges to the amount of $6000 had been made by the students and some friends of the association, the Provost took the matter up and secured the munificent gift which made possible the immediate erection of the hall...
...Annual Report just published by the Provost, attention is called to the great number of important changes that have taken place during the last year in the administration of the affairs of the college by the founding of a Board of Deans and by the substitution of an Academic Council for the cumbersome Faculty Committee. Exclusive of the dormitories there have been erected during the year the Agnew Memorial Pavilion, the Maternity Hospital, the Pepper Clinical Laboratory, a new dental hall soon to be ready for occupation, and the Flower Observatory which is now in active operation. In addition...