University Record i v ,r LITERAE, SINE MORIBUS, VANAE. • VOLUME I.] UNIVERSITY OF PENNA ., JUNE 27, 1867. [No. 2 . Secret secret fraternities ORGANIZATION ARRANGED IN ORDER OF ESTABLISHMENT. ARRANGED IN ORDER OF ESTABLISHMENT . DELTA PHI. PHI KAPPA SIGMA . CLASS OF 67 . ANAPIZE OE . President : EDWARD F . PUGH. DALE, Jr., Vice president : GERALD F ALPHA CHAPTER OF PENNSYLVANIA . } JOHN W. WRIGHT , GEO. ASHTON CARSON, Treasurer : GEORGE H. BALL . JOHN B. LARGE , l 1 Secretary : CHARLES SHAFFNER . DUNCAN , EDWARD LAW, VI// // i1 4 - 1 HERMAN C. EDW ARCHIBALD R. MONTGOMERY, . S. MILES , Executive Corn . : , F. HERBERT BRUNER , CHARLES E . VAN PELT. WILLIAM H. LEX, J EDWARD S . MILES. A. T. FISHER, ALPHA CHAPTER. W. M. WHARTO N ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT . JAMES P. SIMS, JAMES C. FISHER, Jr. JAMES P. WRIGHT . CLASS OF 68 . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT . STUART, Jr . , HENRY C. CHAPMAN , GEORGE H GEORGE D . WETHERHILL. " FORTITER ET FELICITER . " W. WHARTON FISHER , ti WM. S. JOHNSON , ROBERT M . HUSTON, President : GUSTAVUS B . HORNER . GEORGE G. LENNIG , FRANCIS F . ROWLAND . CHAS. H. POOR . Jr. Vice President : JAMES P. SIMS, WILLIAM WHELEN . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT . Treasurer : WILLIAM M . WHARTON . ROBERT YOUNG . WILLIAM ASHBRIDGE , Secretary : WILLIAM R. WRIGHT. JAMES P. SIMS, LAW DEPARTMENT . LOUIS A. DUHRING , THADDEUS C . LEAVITT 1 JOSEPH C. FRALEY , A . HALLER GROSS. ALEXANDER WOOD , CHARLES KUHN. LAW DEPARTMENT . Executive Com. : EDWARD F. HOFFMAN , WILLIAM W. MONTGOMERY . CHARLES F. ZIEGLER, t. W . MOORE WHARTON, ZETA PSI . DELTA PSI . WILLIAM L . BULL . CLASS OF 69 . " DEXTRAS DARE. " President : GEORGE II . STUART . Vice President : - - Treasurer : ROBERT ADAMS, Jr . Secretary : DELTA CHAPTER . ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. ROBERT FRAZER, Jr ., CLASS OF 70. JAMES H . ELLIOT , ALEXANDER WOOD , "AD ASTRA PER ASPERA . " ALPHA CHAPTER OF PENNSYLVANIA . G . POMEROY ALLEN , ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT . ROBERT ADAMS, Jr ., President : CHARLES R. PARVIN , GEORGE II . BALL , JOSEPH HOPKINSON , Vice President : FRANCIS C. PHILLIPS . SAMUEL B . COLLINS, Jr., R. FRANCIS WOOD . Treasurer : HAROLD GOODWIN , ARCHIBALD R . MONTGOMERY , Secretary : HENRY G. WARD . JOHN W. WRIGHT. HUGH CRAIG, Jr ., HARRY T . ECKERT, EDWARD F. HOFFMAN , CHARLES FRY, GUSTAVUS B. HORNER. WILLLAM D . NEILSON, tieetnteeite ROBERT M. PATTERSON, MASKELL EWING , GEORGE SHARSWOOD . GEORGE McCLELLAN , MEDICAL DEPARTMENT . CALENDAR FOR 1867-68 . MEDICAL DEPARTMENT . CHARLES F . DOWD, HERBERT M . HOWE , GEORGE S. GERHARD , 1867 - CHARLES M. RITZ. HERBERT NORRIS , First Term begins Monday, September 1G LAW DEPARTMENT . ARUNDEL C . OSBORNE. First Term ends Tuesday, December 24 1868 INMAN HORNER, LAW DEPARTMENT . Secon d Term begins T hursday January 2 4, GEORGE I. PEIRCE, ELIAS L. BOUDINOT S econd Term ends Tuesday, March 3 1 HENRY PEPPER, J. DENNI E MEREDITH Third Term begins Thursday, April 2 HENRY REED . E . GREENOUGH PLATT. Jun ior Exhibitio n, April. DELTA PHI,— 1 7 Class Day June . ZETA PSI, 14 Baccalaureate Sermon, -First Sunday in June. Phi KAPPA SIGMA, 10 Commencement Day, June 25 . DELTA PSI, 20 Spangler Davis, Printers, 529 Commerce St ., Phila . 2 THE UNIVERSITY RECORD . to the city . Then again, there is great need o f OUR ALMA MATER . a complete set of modern philosophical apparatus ; especially is an observatoryrequired l . Indeed a mil- -THE UNIVERSITY RECORD Philadelphians—we mean those who think at al lion of dollars could be very judiciously on the subject—seem to have asked themselves the applied to the University . It would certainly be a ver Published by the question : " What claims the University has upon y of '67. profitable investment for the city and State, fo r them!" and to have answered, "none ." We an- money expended upon education is not only neve r swer, every title that antiquity, worth, the prosperit y PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 27, 1867 . lost, but is always productive . Is there not some and happiness, and welfare of the city, the educa- Peabody in Philadelphia hono r of the patriotic enough to at tion and refinement of its chidren, the least start the movement ? the safety of the nation, can create . Befor e Herman C. Duncan , State, Newcomb B . Thompson, Ed considering the claims of the College, let us inquir e John W. Wright , itors , William H. Lea. into its needs . Fifty, or an hundred years ago , the branches taught were sufficient for the qualifi- THE GRADUATING CLASS. cation of the young man for the duties of life . Now things are changed ; we are not satisfied with It has been well remarked, that for a college to the learning that answered our ancestors ; the worl d be prosperous, the active aid of all bodies con- has moved, and education has moved with it. Sci- nected with it is required. The Class of 67 hav e THE YEAR . ence has advanced, but our University has not bee n fully appreciated this fact, and accepting the lesson able to keep pace with it ; this deplorable conditio n it teaches, have lent their aid iii no small measure has not arisen from any fault on the part of th e to the advancement of the University . That mystic date, 1867, which so many hav e o On the morning of Wednesday, looked forward to at once with hope and fear, has University . New sciences have sprung up, and t Sept. 8th, 1863, sons instructed in them the University must the Class entered college thirty--two strong at last become a reality. For four long years thou - have her ; but have additional teachers . But men wont work fifteen of the number passed the final examination . sands of young hearts have beaten quickly wit h . Every One of the absent ones has . Thousands of brain s without pay, even if they are Professors laid his life down in the excitement at its mention philosopher Socrates, hence an additiona l service of his Maker . We have have toiled with redoubled energy, as the though t is not a received as ne w endowment must first be had . When the Univer- members during the course, nineteen ; we gradu- of its approach reminded them of the honors i t ate, twenty-one . It has come, an d sity asked for money to supply the needs of Phila- might have in store for them delphia and Pennsylvania from our fathers, the y The Class attempted to organize in the Class of 67 gathers from the four quarters of their Fresh - gave with liberal hand . Are Philadelphians of th e man year, but owing to local circumstances were globe, to " commence " the battle of life indepen- s prevented from so doing. A n literis , present day degenerate ? What is most needed i organization was , dently . Convinced that vila sine mors est School of Mines and Engi- however, effected early in the Sophomore we enlisted in the army of Letters . We have bee n the establishment of a year . neering . Pennsylvania is a State of great mineral For some years antecedent to the pronounced " fitted," in the Camps of Instruction , advent o f resources, and should, even if she looked only to he r our Class, the practice of holding annual exltili- and are now under marching orders to take the tions, by the Juniors, had fallen field. Many talented leaders in our army hav e pecuniary interest, educate men to thoroughly de- into disuse . The velop them . Additional Professors are also greatl y custom we were successful in re-establishing. Class fallen ; we rush to take their places . The past yea r h Day and Supper were well supported this in our ow n needed in the Department of Arts, not only to teac year. has been one of considerable note y 1 he custom of the whole Class first event that marked it was the new branches, but also to relieve Professors alread wearing caps and University . The much burdened . For illustration, it is out of gowns on all public occasions ; as also advent of a new Professor . The chair rendere d too of attendin g the question for one Professor to thoroughly in- the Baccalaureate Sermon in a body in full rega- vacant by the resignation of Professor (now Presi- r lia, were inaugurated by our Class has been very acceptably filled by struct, in three years, a class, attending to othe . The Literary dent (Coppee, duties at the same time, in all the branches of Nat- Societies and Fraternities have received much Prof : Stills . A more extended notice of this gen- aid ural Philosophy and Chemistry . New Professor- from members of our Class . The bonds that boun d tleman will be found in another column . ships are necessary- to make the course, as it shoul d its to the lives of under-graduates are broken ; we been characterized by a complete The year has be, elective . A man should be allowed to pursu e go forth lighting under that noble motto : ~1vStpt r~JF ; change in the mode of Examinations ; the publi c all those studies which he shall find necessary t o we must succeed. Examinations, and their preceding reviews at the qualify him for him for his occupation, and on th e end of the first and second terms, have been abol- other ]rand, should not be compelled, becaus e ished ; three or four recitations, on the studies of mixed with what he wants, to study a single branc h those terms, are now substituted . At the close o f he finds useless and unprofitable to him . THE BACCALAUREATE SERMON. the collegiate year, after a rapid review of six weeks The other Departments are not permitted thu s each class is publicly examined in the studies o f to languish . The Law Department has as man y The evening of the Sunday after Ascension Day , the whole year . For this purpose the classes are Professors as are needed ; The Medical Depart- (June 2d, 1867,) was marked by the delivery, at each divided, alphabetically .