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Penn’s History. Penn dates its founding to 1740, when a plan emerged to build a Philadelphia charity school that would double as a house of worship. After construction was underway, however, the cost was seen to be much greater than the available resources, and the project went unfinished for a decade.
Penn removed from campus in 2020 the statue of the Reverend George Whitefield (who had inspired the 1740 establishment of a trust to establish a charity school, which trust Penn legally assumed in 1749) when research showed Whitefield owned fifty enslaved people and drafted and advocated for the key theological arguments in favor of slavery in Georgia and the rest of the Thirteen Colonies.
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The curriculum was designed to teach reading, sewing and knitting to thirty girls. The Trustees appropriated money for books, canvas and materials for crewel work.
In 1761, after Mrs. Holwell’s death, her sister Mrs. Mary Middleton was appointed headmistress; a year later, Mrs. Sarah Gardiner, a niece of Mrs. Middleton, took over that position. Mrs. Gardiner headed the school until 1779; the British occupation interrupted the school briefly, but when the Americans returned, Mrs. Gardiner in 1778 resumed class...
Because of crowding, financial considerations, and concern about the proximity of the girls to the many boys on the campus, the trustees were not always comfortable with the presence of the Charity School for girls on campus. The class of girls, sometimes as many as forty two, was taught in one of the upper rooms of the Academy building until 1758,...
William Adger, James Brister, and Nathan Francis Mossell in 1879 were the first African Americans to enroll at Penn. Adger was the first African American to graduate from the college at Penn (1883), [44] and when Brister graduated from the School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) (class of 1881), he was the first African American to earn a degree at Penn. [45] Tosui Imadate was the first person ...
Penn dates its founding to 1740, when a plan emerged to build a Philadelphia charity school that would double as a house of worship. After construction was underway, however, the cost was seen to be much greater than the available resources, and the project went unfinished for a decade.
The University of Pennsylvania dates its founding to 1740, when a prominent evangelist, George Whitefield, and others established an educational trust fund and began construction of a large school building at Fourth and Arch streets in Philadelphia. The building was designed as a charity school for the children of working-class Philadelphians and as a house of worship for Whitefield's followers.
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Jun 24, 2022 · The fifth oldest university in the United States and the first to offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, Penn was initially intended to double as a charity school and a house of worship. Throughout its nearly three centuries-long history, the University of Pennsylvania has developed a strong reputation as one of the nation’s foremost educational institutions.
