Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, and Students, of the University ... and of the Grammar and Charity Schools ...

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The University., 1892
 

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Seite 8 - ... as also make and subscribe, and cause them to make and subscribe, the Declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, " An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants...
Seite 10 - England, and advised of what would be further necessary to the due improvement of the collection and the future prosperity of the institution. ' ' That the institution was originally founded and carried on for the general benefit of a mixed body of people — that on the king's brief it is represented as a seminary that would be of great use for securing capable instructors and teachers, as well for the service of the society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts, as for other protestant denominations...
Seite 5 - A pamphlet, called : Proposals Relative to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, written in 1749 by Dr. FRANKLIN, led to an association by certain...
Seite 6 - July 13th, 1753, they were incorporated by the name of the "Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the province of Pennsylvania.
Seite 8 - An act for' the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late princess Sophia being Protestants and for the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors...
Seite 10 - The trustees being ever desirous to promote the peace and prosperity of this seminary, and to give satisfaction to all its worthy benefactors, have taken the above letter into their serious consideration, and perfectly approving the sentiments therein contained, do order the same to be inserted in their books, that it may remain perpetually declaratory of the present wide and excellent plan of this institution, which hath not only met with the approbation of the great and worthy personages above...
Seite 7 - ... we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant full power and authority, from time to time, to administer oaths for the discovery of truth, in any matter in controversy or depending before them...
Seite 100 - LIBRARY. thousand volumes, and including nearly every important book on these subjects in the English, French, and Italian languages, published before 1860. This collection has been supplemented by the bequest of the library of the late Henry C. Carey, which includes many later works and pamphlets, and is especially rich in statistical literature, European government reports, and the like. It embraces a collection of about three thousand English pamphlets, formerly Mr. McCalmont's, covering the period...
Seite 7 - Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, represented, That since our granting our said recited charter, the academy therein mentioned, by the blessing of Almighty God, is greatly improved, being now well provided with masters, not only in the learned languages, but also in the liberal arts and sciences, and that one class of hopeful students has now attained to that station in learning and science, by which, in all well constituted seminaries, youth are entitled to...
Seite 12 - ... directed, be, and they are hereby made and constituted a corporation and body politick, in law and in fact, to have continuance for ever by the aforesaid name, style, and title of "THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA," and that the said university shall at all times be stationed in the city of Philadelphia.

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