OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FROM ITS ORIGIN TO THE YEAR 1827 BY GEORGE B. WOOD, M.D. THIRD EDITION WITH SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS BY FREDERICK D. STONE, LITT.D. Librarian of the Historical Society PHILADELPHIA 1896 THE PASTA PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. THERE is no institution at the present time in which a more general interest is taken by Philadelphians than in the University of Pennsylvania. Through its various schools and departments its influence is felt in the homes of thousands of our citizens, and with each succeeding year the sphere of that influence is being extended throughout the State. The activity which is always connected with the organization of a new movement has made the public familiar with the history of those departments which have been lately added to the University; but of the history of the parent school little has been written, and that little is not of easy access to the public. The first contribution in this line was the historical sketch written by the late Dr. George B. Wood in 1827, and printed in the third volume of the Memoirs iii 219981 of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1834. It was subsequently included in a volume of "Historical and Biographical Memoirs" by Dr. Wood, published in 1872. The next contributions of importance were a Memoir of the Rev. William Smith, D.D., Provost of the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, by Charles J. Stillé, in 1869; and, in the same year, a History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from its foundation to 1865, by Joseph Carson, M.D. The information contained in Dr. Stillé's excellent memoir was afterwards used, with additions, in a Life of Dr. Smith by his great-grandson, Horace W. Smith, two volumes, octavo, 1879-1880. Some of these works have been long out of print, and the remnants of the editions of others have been virtually withdrawn from the channels of trade. In 1893, a bulky pamphlet, containing the history of the University and of its several departments, written by many hands and edited by Dr. Francis Newton Thorpe, |