Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Public universities and colleges; Pittsburgh (Pa.); University of Pittsburgh
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
Between April 3, 1906 and 1977
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 75
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
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Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Within a short period, more advanced education in the area was needed, so in 1819 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania amended the school's 1787 charter to confer university status. The school was named the Western University of Pennsylvania, or WUP, and was intended to be the western sister institution to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia...In 1895 WUP established its School of Law, and Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse were elected to the Board of Trustees, where they joined Andrew Mellon who had been elected in 1894...Citing a need to avoid confusion, distinguish itself from the University of Pennsylvania, and return to its roots by identifying itself with the city, the Western University of Pennsylvania, by act of the state legislature, was renamed the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1908." [SOURCE: "University of Pittsburgh." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh. Accessed 21 Aug. 2018].