Author: University Of PittsburghPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780366262342
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Excerpt from Catalogue and Circular Information of the Pittsburgh Dental College, 1904: Dental Department of the Western University of Pennsylvania, Session of 1904 and 1905 The Western University of Pennsylvania is the oldest institution of learning, with one exception (the University of Nashville) in the United States west of the Appalachian Moun tain range. It came into being as the Pittsburgh Academy in the year 1786 and was formally incorporated by Act of Legisla ture in February, 1787. It was re-incorporated as the Western University of Pennsylvania in February, 1819. It has educated in whole or in part more than six thousand of the young men of Western Pennsylvania and adjacent States, and its alumni have filled many of the most distinguished offices in the gift of the Commonwealth and the nations. The growth of the institution has been rapid in more recent years and the University is to-day the most largely attended institution of learning in its class in the State of Pennsylvania, with the single exception of its sister institution-university of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.