years, or if they have within one year preceding their application been professional tramps or beggars, or if they have any relatives or other persons who, under the laws of the Commonwealth, are liable and able to support them. Old age assistance cannot be granted to persons having property exceeding $3,000 in value or if the aggregate value of the property of the applicant and his wife or her husband as the case may be exceeds $3,000. STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION. This Commission was created by the Act of June 14, 1923, P. L. 710. It consists of three persons appointed by the Governor for terms of two years, but the first appointees were required to be so appointed that the term of one Commissioner will expire January 1, 1925, the term of another on January 1, 1926 and the term of another on January 1, 1927. Each Commissioner receives an annual salary of $5,000 and his necessary expenses. The Commissioners are empowered to appoint not more than three deputies who are paid a per diem compensation of $10 with necessary expenses. The Commission is authorized to appoint a secretary at a salary of not more than $3,000 per annum. The Commission is vested with the sole direction, management, control and jurisdiction over all boxing, sparring and wrestling matches or exhibitions for purses, or where an admission fee is charged; and such matches or exhibitions are rendered legal except on Sundays. Matches or exhibitions cannot, however, be given except under the terms and conditions imposed by the Act of 1923 which creates the Commission. All corporations desiring to conduct, hold or give boxing, sparring or wrestling matches or exhibitions must be licensed by the Commission. Licenses will be granted only to corporations or persons holding leases for a term of at least three months upon premises in which such matches or exhibitions are to be Licenses cannot be issued for holding held. any such match or exhibition in any city, borough or township in which an ordinance prohibits the holding of such matches or the holding of such exhibitions. The Commission is permitted to issue annual permits to licensed persons or corporations, but any such permits may be revoked by the Commission for violation of any of the provisions of the Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commission. All persons who participate in any such matches or exhibitions must also be licensed as must any and all physicians, referees, judges, time-keepers, professional boxers, professional wrestlers, rubbers, trainers and seconds who participate either directly or indirectly in such matches or regulations. Boxing and sparring matches or exhibitions shall not be of more than ten rounds duration, nor may the rounds be for more than three minutes each. No boxer can be permitted to participate in more than ten rounds within twenty-four consecutive hours. Physicians are required to be in attendance at all such matches or exhibitions and no person under the age of eighteen years may engage in any such match or exhibition and no person under the age of sixteen years can be permitted to attend as a spectator. Other matters with regard to the conditions under which these matches or exhibitions may be conducted will be found in the Act of 1923 which created the Commission. TEMPORARY COMMISSIONS. GIANT POWER SURVEY BOARD. This Board was created by Act of May 24, 1923, P. L. 449. Under that Act, as modified by the Administrative Code, the Board consists of the Governor, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Forests and Waters, the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Labor and Industry, the State Geologist, a deputy attorney general and a competent engineer designated by the Governor. The Act makes the Governor chairman of the Board. The Board is charged with the duty of undertaking an outline survey of water and fuel resources available for Pennsylvania, and of the most practicable means for their full utilization for power development and other related uses; also to recommend in outline such policy with respect to the generation and distribution of electric energy as will in the opinion of the Board best secure for the industries, railroads, farms and homes of the Commonwealth an abundant and cheap supply of electric current for industrial, transportation, agricultural and domestic use. It is specifically directed to investigate the practicability of establishing giant power plants for the generation of electricity by fuel power near coal mines; the transmission and distribution of electricity throughout the Commonwealth; the saving and utilization of the by-products of coal in power plants; the electrification of railroads; the generation of electric energy by water power; the coordination of water and fuel power development with the regularization and use of streams for all purposes. report is to be submitted to the General Assembly at the opening of the regular session in January, 1925. PENAL CODE COMMISSION. Its This Commission was authorized by the Act of July 25, 1917, P. L. 1188 and continued by concurrent resolution of June 23, 1919, P. L. 1211, by joint resolution of May 27, 1921, P. L. 1187 and joint resolution of June 14, 1923, P. L. 699. As originally constituted the Commission consists of five members appointed by the Governor, but the joint resolution of June 14, 1923 provided for the appointment by the Governor of two additional one members, of whom must be a district All of the members of the Commisattorney. are lawyers. The duty of the Commission is to revise, collate and digest all Acts relating to or touching the penal laws of the Commonwealth. The Commission must report to the 1925 Legislature. sion COMMISSION ΤΟ REVISE THE BANKING This Commission was authorized by Act of July 25, 1917, P. L. 1202, and continued by the Acts of July 21, 1919, P. L. 1056, May 27, 1921, P. L. 1201 and May 22, 1923, P. L. 303. The Commission consists of five persons appointed by the Governor. Its work is to codify and revise the laws relating to banks, private bankers, trust companies, savings institutions, building and loan associations, loan brokers and all other corporations under the supervision of the Department of Banking as well as all other laws on matters and subjects relating to banking as may be referred to the Commission by the Governor or the Secretary of Banking. The Commission is required to report to the 1925 Legislature. COMMISSION ΤΟ CODIFY AND REVISE THE LAWS RELATING TO POOR DISTRICTS. This Commission was authorized by the Act of April 13, 1921, P. L. 136 and continued for a further period of two years by the Act of July 11, 1923, P. L. 1068. The Commission consists of three persons appointed by the Governor, whose duty it is to codify and revise the laws relating to poor districts, and the care of the poor and report to the General Assembly recommending such changes in the existing law as may seem desirable. COMMISSION TO MAKE AN INVESTIGATION OF THE BATTLEFIELDS OF This Commission was authorized by Act of May 27, 1921, P. L. 1173 and continued for a period of two years by the Act of July 13, 1923, P. L. 1090. summer The Commission consists of five citizens appointed by the Governor. Its original duty was to investigate the battlefields of France and Belgium with a view to selecting sites for monuments. on those battlefields where Pennsylvania troops fought. In pursuance of this duty the Commission went to France and the Belgium in of 1922, consulted various agencies of the French and Belgium governments relative to its work, studied the entire western front and upon its return made its report to the 1923 Legislature. The Act of July 13, 1923, which continued the Commission authorized it to purchase, erect, construct and dedicate memorials in France and Belgium as follows; (1) The purchase of the Chateau Site, adjoining the Place du Chateau, from the town of Varennes, Department of Meuse, France, and the erection thereon of a State memorial in honor of the citizens of Pennsylvania who served on the battlefields For the purpose of making necessary investigations the Commission is given access for its members or agents to documents, records and papers belonging to or under the control of the State, cities, counties, boroughs, and townships, and institutions and societies dealing with children which are subject to State supervision. STATE TAX COMMISSION. This Commission was authorized by Joint Resolution approved June 14, 1923, P. L. 750. It consists of seven citizens of the State, two of whom were appointed by the Governor, two by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and three by the of Speaker the House of all Representatives. It is the duty of the Com- VETERANS OF PENNSYLVANIA. This Commission was created by the Act of July 12, 1923, P. L. 1076. The Commission consists of five persons, who were former Pennsylvania soldiers, sailors, or marines, or nurses in the United States forces during the World War, and were appointed by the Governor. of France and Belgium, and to perpetuate the memories of those who fell in the war against Germany and her allies; (2) The construction and erection of a bridge spanning the Vesle River between Fismes and Fismettes, Department of Aisne, in France, to replace the wooden bridge built by the United States Army Engineers (still in use), as a memorial to the Twenty-eighth Division, formerly the National The Commission is authorized to investigate Guard of Pennsylvania; (3) The construction into the condition of all soldiers, sailors, and erection of a memorial monument at Montmarines and nurses, and all former soldiers, faucon, Department of Meuse, in France, in sailors, marines and nurses who were in the honor of Pennsylvanians who served in the military or naval forces of the United States Seventy-ninth Division; (4) The construction and in the World War, and who were wounded or erection of a memorial monument at Nantillois, disabled in the service thereof: Provided, howDepartment of Meuse, in France, in honor of ever, that all such present and former soldiers, Pennsylvanians who served in the Eightieth sailors, marines and nurses were legal residents Division; and, (5) The construction and erecof this Commonwealth at the time of entering tion of a memorial monument at Audenarde, the service of the United States, or have been In Belgium, in honor of the Fifty-third Field legal residents of this Commonwealth for at least Artillery Brigade withdrawn from the Twenty-one year since the termination of hostilities. eighth Division and transferred to the Ninetyfirst Division in Belgium. The Commission is empowered to take appropriate action to obtain relief and full benefits and advantages in compensation or training accruing to any such soldier, sailor, marine, or nurse under the laws of the United States. The members of the Commission receive no compensation for their services, but are reimbursed for all expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties. Seven thousand five hundred dollars was appropriated to pay the expenses of the Commis This Commission was authorized by the Act of May 19, 1923, P. L. 276. It consists of nine members, appointed by the Governor, of whomsion. three must be women and six at least experts in work to help the condition of the blind. The duty of the Commission is to make a study of the laws, and of educational, economic and social conditions relating to blind persons in Pennsylvania and to report to the 1925 Legislature as to legislation and policies, to make the treatment, care, progress and welfare of blind persons in Pennsylvania comparable with the most approved methods and practices. COMMISSION TO REVISE THE STATUTES RELATING TO CHILDREN. This Commission was authorized by the Act of July 11, 1923, P. L. 994. It consists of seven persons, appointed by the Governor, of whom three must be women. Its duties are to study all laws relating to child welfare and to suggest revisions and amendments to the statutes which relate to children, and especially those which relate to dependent, defective, delinquent, neglected, incorrigible or illegitimate children and to study the laws, conditions and practices of this State relating to child welfare, revising and consolidating such laws and recommending such amendments to the laws as the Commission may desire to recommend. COMMISSION TO CONSOLIDATE This Commission was created by the Act of The Commission is authorized to study the subject of consolidation of the various municipalities, to wit: cities, boroughs, and townships in counties of the second class, into one municipality and to file with the next General Assembly its report, together with an act providing a method for such consolidation. The members of the Commission receive no compensation for their services, but are reimbursed for all expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties. The Commission appoints a secretary and such other agents, employes, and legal counsel, at such reasonable compensation, as it may determine. The county and the several municipalities are authorized to make appropriations for the use of the said Commission in the payment of its expenses, but such appropriations shall not exceed in any case one dollar in any year for each one hundred inhabitants of the county of the municipality. FARM LABOR COMMISSION. This Commission was created by concurrent resolution of June 6, 1923, P. L. 1111. The Commission consists of three Senators appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House. The Commission is authorized to consider ways and means of alleviating the unfavorable conditions facing the farming interests of the State and assure farmers of reasonable profits for their labors. The Commission holds such hearings in different parts of the Commonwealth as may be deemed necessary, and will report to the next session of the General Assembly. Five thousand dollars was appropriated to pay the expenses of the Commission. states are the same as in the case of the Com- COMMISSION ΤΟ CONSTRUCT A BRIDGE OVER THE DELAWARE RIVER CONNECTING PHILADELPHIA AND CAMDEN. This Commission was authorized by the Act of July 9, 1919, P. L. 814, as amended by the Act of April 26, 1921, P. L. 287 and a supplement thereto approved July 13, 1923, P. L. 1093. The Commission is composed of representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey and was created for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Delaware River connecting the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey. The Pennsylvania members of the Commission are the Governor, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer of the Commonwealth, the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia and four other citizens of Pennsylvania appointed by the Governor. The Commission was authorized to have prepared the necessary plans and specifications for the construction of the bridge, to select the location and to determine the size, type and method of construction thereof, to plan and fix its boundaries and approaches, to make estimates of the cost of the construction and the acquisition of the ground for the bridge and its approaches, to acquire such ground, to enter into the necessary contracts to build and equip the entire bridge and the approaches to it, to build the bridge, to obtain such consent as may be necessary from the government of the United States and to cause a survey and The Commission is composed of representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York and was created for the purpose of acquiring various bridges over the Delaware River between the two States. The map to be made of all lands, structures, Pennsylvania members of the Commission are the Governor, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer. It is the duty of the Commission to ascertain or estimate the value of each of such bridges and to give notice in writing to the owner or owners thereof of the valuation placed thereon and to offer to purchase the bridge at such valuation. If the owner or owners decline to accept this offer it is the duty of the Joint Commission to determine in which State condemnation proceedings shall be instituted. Each State is required to pay one-half of the purchase price of any bridge purchased or demned and after acquisition one-half of the expense of maintenance, repairing or rebuilding. Toll charges on bridges acquired by the Commission must be discontinued as soon as possession is obtained in the joint names of the two States, except that any railroad, or railway having the use of such bridge shall continue to pay in equal proportion to each of the States the same rental charges as theretofore. con rights of way, franchises, easements or other interests of lands lying within the Commonwealth including lands under water and riparian rights owned by any person, corporation or municipality, the acquisition of which may be deemed necessary for the construction of the bridge and to cause such map and survey to be filed in the Commission's office. The supplement approved July 13, 1923 auth、rizes the Commission to provide for the equip. ment of the bridge with facilities for railway, railroad, motor bus, vehicles, or other means of transportation and for telegraph, telephone, electric or other public service facilities, authorizing it to make arrangements with transportation companies for the operation across the bridge of any of these public service facilities and also provides for the fixing and collection of charges, rates, rentals or tolls for such operations. Proper contracts or leases may be made to carry out the purposes of the Act. The bridge will be paid for by the Commonwealth, the City of Philadelphia and the State of New Jersey. COMMISSION TO PROVIDE FOR JOINT AC. This Commission was authorized by the Act of May 8, 1919, P. L. 148, as amended by the Act of April 20, 1921, P. L. 196. This Commission was created by Act of May 24, 1923, P. L. 448, authorizing the Governor to designate three officials of the Commonwealth as commissioners with power to negotiate, with the duly authorized commissioners of the states of New York and New The purpose of the Commission is the ac- Jersey, a compact in accordance with the conquisition of various toll bridges over the Dela- stitution of the United States for the regularware River between the Commonwealth of Penn- ization of the flow of the Delaware River, the sylvania and the State of New Jersey. The conservation of the water resources of the Pennsylvania members of the Commission are Delaware Basin, the apportionment thereof the Governor, the Auditor General, the State among the said states for domestic, and municTreasurer and two persons appointed by theipal supply, and the utilization thereof for Governor. power and other beneficial uses. The compact The manner of acquiring bridges and the con- is to be submitted by the Governor to the tributions to be made by each of the interested General Assembly, and, the Congress of the United States having consented thereto, to be in full force and effect upon its ratification by the duly enacted law of this Commonwealth and by the states of New York and New Jersey as their laws respectively prescribe. Because of, delay in the appointment of the Commissioners for New Jersey the first meeting of the Joint Commission was not held until June 3, 1924, in the City of New York. In the meantime, however, preliminary informal meetings with the New York Commissioners were held in New York City and in Harrisburg. This was followed by a meeting of the engineer advisers of the Commissioners of the three states at Trenton, to agree upon data and suggestions to be put before the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission, on June 28, to July 1, 1924, inclusive, inspected the watershed of the Delaware from the source of the river in the Catskill Mountains to Eastern Pennsylvania. On this inspection they were accompanied by their several engineers and by Colonel William Kelley, chief engineer of the Federal Power Commission. The Commissioners of New York and New Jersey having intimated the desire of those states to divert, for municipal water supply, waters from the Delaware Basin to the metropolitan districts of those states outside the basin, the Pennsylvania Commissioners as a preliminary step have notified all Pennsylvania municipalities and all water companies serving Pennsylvania communities within the basin to forecast their needs in order that they may be fully safeguarded by any compact that may be proposed. In addition to the information received in response to these requests the Pennsylvania Commission has undertaken detailed studies on its own motion for the same purpose, which indicate that a practicable scheme for the regulation of the Delaware River would provide an increased water supply available to all Pennsylvania communities after allowing for the diversion suggested by New York and New Jersey; also that such regulation would carry with it vast benefits in flood control, power development, sewage disposal, navigation and other uses of the river. THE STATE-AIDED UNIVERSITIES. PENNSYL UNIVERSITY OF VANIA, PHILADELPHIA. The University of Pennsylvania traces its beginning to the year 1740. a On Benjamin Franklin, in 1749, published pamphlet entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania", which led to the formation of a board of twentyfour trustees, nineteen of whom, on November 13, 1749, met for organization of "the Publick Academy in the City of Philadelphia", and elected Benjamin Franklin president of the board, an office which he held until 1756. February 1, 1750, there was conveyed to this board of trustees the "New Building" on Fourth street, near Arch, which had been erected in 1740 for a Charity School and as a "House of Publick Worship", in which George Whitefield had preached in November, 1740; the original trustees (including Franklin) of the "New Building" and of its projected charity school date from 1740, and therefore the University attaches to its seal the words "Founded 1740." was In the "New Building" the Academy opened on January 7, 1751, the city having voted 200 pounds for the completion of the building. On September 16, 1751, a Charitable School for the instruction of poor Children gratis in "Reading, Writing and Arithmetick" was opened. The proprietaries Thomas and Richard Penn incorporated "The Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania" in 1753; and in 1755 issued a confirmatory charter, changing the corporate name to "The Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School", etc. William Smith, of the University of Aberdeen, was the first provost of the College. In 1756 he established a curriculum which was adopted later by other colleges. The first college class was graduated in 1757. From 1762 to 1764 Dr. Smith collected for the college in England about 6,900 pounds; and in 1764 his influence had become so strong that is was feared that the college would become sectarian. The Penns and others deprecated this and the trustees bound themselves to use their utmost endeavors that (the original plan) be not narrowed, nor the members of the Church of England, nor those dissenting from them... ......be put on any worse footing in this seminary than they were at the time of receiving the royal brief." From September 1777 to June 1778, college sessions were temporarily discontinued because Philadelphia was held by British troops. Then came the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the first Constitution of the Commonwealth adopted. And then, for the first time in American history, higher education and its claims upon the State were made a part of the organic law of a Commonwealth. For the mandate of this first constitution was "that all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities." The purpose of this provision, well understood at the time, was to protect the cause of higher education in the College and Academy, for this was the only institution then in existence to which the constitutional mandate could apply. an On November 27, 1779, the Assembly passed act to carry into effect this provision of the constitution, declaring in the preamble that its purpose was "to alter the charter" of the Academy and College "conformable to the Revolution and to the Constitution and Government of this Commonwealth, and to erect the same into an university." The corporate name given to it was "The University of the State of Pennsylvania." The act directed that the confiscated estates of the Loyalists should be preserved to create a fund for the main. tenance of the university. The Ten years later the "College" charter and property were restored, the new "University of the State of Pennsylvania" remaining also. Finally, the Legislature, on September 30, 1791, united the College and the University, and vested the estates of both in the board of trustees, twenty-four in number, as now constituted. The Governor of the Commonwealth was made ex-officio president of the board. name given to the new corporation was "The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania." One other provision must needs be mentioned-that "The trustees shall annually lay a statement of the funds of the institution before the Legislature of the Commonwealth."' Thus was the relationship of the State and the University established by the constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth-a relationship that still exists, and has been recognized in the appropriations made by recent legislatures or new buildings, for special activities of the University or for general maintenance. Undergraduate Schools. The College: Courses in Arts and Science, Biology, College Courses for Teachers, Summer In 1802 the University purchased new grounds | THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMon Ninth street, between Market and Chestnut, PREHENDS THE FOLLOWING DEPARTwhere the Post Office building now is; there MENTS. until 1829 the University occupied the building erected for the administrative mansion of the President of the United States; there new buildings were erected after 1829, and from these the University removed to its present site in West Philadelphia, where it has about 110 acres of ground and upward of 50 buildings. The Flower Astronomical Observatory is located at Highland Park Station, Delaware County. The Provosts have been: 1755-1779 and 1789-1803, William Smith; 1779-1791, of the University of the State of Pennsylvania, John School. The Towne Scientific School: Courses in Chemistry, Chemical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering. The Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The Wharton School of Finance and Com merce. The School of Education. The School of Fine Arts: Courses in Ar Professional Schools. The School of Medicine. Ewing; 1791-1802, of the University of Penn-chitecture, Music, Fine Arts. sylvania, John Ewing: 1807-1810, John Mc- The Graduate School and the Graduate School Dowell; 1810-1813, John Andrews; 1813-1828, in Business Administration. Frederick Beasley; 1828-1833, William Heathcote De Lancey: 1834-1853, John Ludlow; 18541859, Henry Vethake; 1860-1868, Daniel Rayes Goodwin; 1868-1880, Charles Janeway Stille; 1881-1894, William Pepper; 1894-1911, Charles C. Harrison; 1911-1920, Edgar F. Smith; 19201924, Josiah H. Penniman (President and Provost). Among the most recent developments of the University are the organization of the Graduate School of Medicine in 1919, of the School of Fine Arts in 1920, the opening of courses for Dental Hygienists in 1921, and the opening of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1923. The new School is endowed under the will of Alfred Fitler Moore. The School of Fine Arts combines the course in Architecture, which long ago reached a very high efficiency and reputation in the profession, with the courses in Fine Arts, and the courses in Music. The Graduate School of Medicine is an outgrowth of the merger, 1916-1918, of the MedicoChirurgical, College and Hospital, and the Polyclinic Hospital with the University of Pennsylvania. On this basis, the University has bound together in one cooperative group fiftyfive Philadelphia medical laboratories, libraries. museums, hospitals, clinics, universities and societies. Other organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere are added yearly. The result is an opportunity for medical research and special investigation which draws graduate physicians from many states and countries. At present no similar opportunity for advanced medical study is offered elsewhere in the world. Under this School extension courses for graduate physicians are now offered in several cities throughout the State. Extension work in other fields has been offered by the University for ten years, the four principal centers being located at Scranton, WilkesBarre, Harrisburg, and Reading. There are also a number of extra-mural courses for teachers given in many smaller cities. Extension work by means of lectures and demonstrations is also given throughout a wide territory by members of the Faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine. A three-year course in Finance and Commerce leading to a Certificate of Proficiency and taught by members of the Wharton School faculty is given in the four principal extension cities. Courses for teachers are also conducted in these centers by members of the faculties of the College and of the School of Education. During the school year of 1923-24 more than 2,000 students were enrolled in the extension and extra-mural courses given by the University. The tuition fee is low, as the State has made appropriations to assist in defraying the ex The School of Dentistry and Thomas W. Evans Institute. The School of Veterinary Medicine. The Graduate School of Medicine. The School of Hygiene and Public Health. Other Departments of Instruction. The Psychological Laboratory and Clinic. tics The Courses for Dental Hygienists. Auxiliary Divisions. The University Library. The William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine. The Graduate School of Medicine Hospitals: The Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, The Polyclinic Hospital. The Henry Phipps Institute. The Wistar Institute of Anatomy. The Flower Astronomical Observatory. The University Bureau of Appointments. The Press of the University of Pennsylvania. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. The Governor of Pennsylvania, President exofficio. Elected. 1876. Charles C. Harrison, LL. D. 1898. Samuel Frederic Houston, Ph. B. 1911. Richard A. F. Penrose, Jr., Ph. D. 1921. Charles Day, B. S. in E. E., M. E. 1921. Charles J. Hatfield, A. M., M. D. 1921. Thomas S. Gates, Ph. B., LL. B. 1922. Albert R. Brunker, B. S. 1922. George W. Wickersham, LL. B., A. M. Administrative Officers. President and Provost-Josiah H. Penniman, Ph. D., LL. D. Office, 102 College Hall. Vice-Provost-J. Hartley Merrick, A. M. Office, 104 College Hall. Secretary-Edward W. Mumford, Ph. B. Office, 3446 Walnut street. Treasurer-F. A. Corlies Morgan, 3446 Walnut street. B. Office, |