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If they can, Penn history buffs usually read Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach (subtitled Franklin and His Heirs at the University of Pennsylvania, 1740
-1796) as a companion to Edward Potts Cheyney's
History of the University of Pennsylvania 1740-1940,
but the 200th-anniversary edition is hard to find outside
the Rare Books section of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
Gladly Learn is at the Penn Book Store, or can be ordered from the
University of Pennsylvania Press, $37.95.
In Search of Penn HistoryFrom time to time a newcomer to the University borrows our office copy of Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach (the personal copy, autographed by Meyerson and Winegrad, is unlendable), and returns it with a wistful, "I guess it's out of print...".Well, no. The most recent Penn history is alive and well, and is on the University of Pennsylvania Press's booklist this year as part of a collection of Books of Regional Interest. This discovery led to an impromptu survey in which we asked the librarians and/or development officers of the Schools if other histories are available. Shown here are the covers of some volumes we found: |
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GSFA's The Book of the School, edited by Ann Strong and George Thomas and published by the Graduate School of Fine Arts for its centennial celebration in 1990. |
The University Museum's oversize Through Time, Across Continents, by Dilys Winegrad, published by the Museum. | |
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GSE's Pedagogy, Professionalism and Policy, a 1986 history of the Graduate School of Education by Willam Brickman. |
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Medicine's Innovation and Tradition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: An Anecdotal Journey by David Cooper III and Marshall Ledger, a 225th-anniversary edition published in 1990. |
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Wharton's centennial edition, The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School 1881-1981, by Stephen Sass. |
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Dental Med's A Century of Dentistry, by Milton Asbell, also a centennial volume, though its first century ended earlier, in 1973. |
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Vet Medicine's A Legacy of Promise: The First 100 Years, 1884-1984, by John Martin. |
We also found that the School of Social Work has a history in monograph form, now undergoing revision...the School of Nursing has a manuscript history done by the late Dean Dorothy Mereness, kept in the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing...the Law School published a brief history in the Winter 1995 edition of the School's Journal...and SAS now keeps its brief history on the Web: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/SAS/sashist.html. Ed. Note: If other schools or centers have histories to add to this list, please send information to me at gaines@pobox.upenn.edu. --K.C.G. |
Almanac
Volume 43 Number 16
December 17, 1996
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