PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF, an American in stitution of higher learning, in Philadelphia. Its campus stretches from the west bank of the Schuylkill river to 39th street, and from 34th and Chestnut streets on the north to the Philadelphia General hospital and the Philadelphia Commercial museum.
The library contained (1936) 826,00o volumes and received 2,000 periodicals. Among important collections are the Penniman (education), Biddle (law), Lippincott (social sciences), Lea. (history), Macauley (romance, and an excellent Dante collec tion), Furness (Shakespeare), Franklin papers, Curtis collection of Franklin imprints, and Hale collection of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The museum has important archaeological and ethnological collections. The exhibitions largely represent the results of the museum's own expeditions to Central and South America, Alaska, various parts of the United States, Egypt, Palestine and Babylonia.
The undergraduate departments of the university are the col lege, Towne Scientific school, Moore School of Electrical Engi neering, Wharton School of Accounts and Finance, Schools of Education and Fine Arts, and College of Liberal Arts for Women. The university also includes the graduate school of arts and sciences, schools of medicine (the first medical school in America, 1765), law, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the graduate school of medicine, departments of physical education and military science, evening school of accounts and finance, extension schools, Carter foundation (child helping), Henry Phipps institute (research in tuberculosis), and University of Pennsylvania Press. Affiliated divisions are Wistar institute of anatomy and biology, and Penn sylvania school of social work.
Admission to undergraduate schools requires the equivalent of graduation from a 4-year high school. The graduate and law schools require a bachelor's degree for admission, the school of medicine, 3 years of college study, the school of dentistry, 2 years, and the school of veterinary medicine, I year. About 1,100 scholarships are granted annually in the undergraduate schools. Several large groups are for students from the city of Philadelphia ; others are in the gift of the governor and State senators. In the graduate school there are 2 research fellowships ($1,500 each), 16 fellowships ($600 each), 2 in physics ($600 each), 6 for women, 3o with free tuition, an inde terminate number in botany, 1 in biophysics ($400), 6 with $200 and free tuition, 2 travelling scholarships ($2,000) in diplomacy and international law, and I travelling fellowship in modern languages. There are also 2 travelling and 2 resident ($1,000)
fellowships in architecture, and scholarships and fellowships in the schools of medicine, law, dentistry and veterinary medicine. Tuition fees range from $25o to $50o.
The present charter fixes the number of trustees at 41, in cluding the governor of Pennsylvania as ex-officio trustee and president. Ten trustees are elected by the alumni. The directing head of the university is the president, who is a member of all faculties and who presides over meetings of the trustees, the governor of Pennsylvania taking no active part in the management of the university. In 1935-36 the instructors totalled 1,372; the students, 13,820.
The year ended June 3o, 1936 showed funds invested in part as follows : plant funds, $27,428,704 ; endowment fund, 102 ; general fund, $2,398,071. Private benefactions in 1935-36 totalled $2,363,915; fees, receipts, rentals, etc., amounted to $3,910,242. Income from invested funds, gifts and other receipts for designated purposes and the State appropriation aggregated $1,840,218. The payment on account of instructional salaries totalled $2,250,965. Payments on account of other salaries and wages totalled $1,392,195. Current expenses and purchases of equipment brought the total to $5,750,460.
The university publishes : The University of Pennsylvania Bulletin (Catalogue, Directory, announcements of Schools, pro gram and proceedings of Schoolmen's Week, contributions from the William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, and the Veterinary Extension Quarterly) ; Astronomical Series; Reprint Series of the Flower Astronomical Observatory ; Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum; Mor ris Arboretum Monographs; Series in Romanic Languages and Literatures; Report of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis; Educational Outlook; Law Review; Hispanic Review; Psychological Clinic; Under graduate, Alumni and News Publications; theses presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ; publications of the University of Pennsylvania Press; University Museum publications ; American Academy of Political and Social Science Annals, and Monographs; Wistar institute of anatomy and biology publications.