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Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d best equipped veterinary building and hospital inAmerica. The buildings occui^y almost an entire square, and areconstructed around a courtyard. The State Livestock SanitaryBoard also has its laboratories here. One square above, at Fortieth and wSpruce Streets, is the EvansDental Institute and Dental School of the University of Penn-sylvania. It is the largest and best equipped plant in existence 40 for teaching doiitistry. Tt houses the most famous dental schoolin the world, and which attracts many students from foreigncountries. In its hall more than ^o.ihx) free treatments andoperatitMis an* performed annnall\. (At Idrtieth and Iinr Streets.) (>n the north side o\ l^ineStreet, .\i>. AO^)~, is the Trovosts llmise. a gift (i> the Universityoi the Mask and Wi^ Clnh. and endowed hy the ahnnni. (Turninii around and ,m>in.u into llamilti>n Walk.) We arenow enlerini; Hamilton Walk throu.uh a Memorial Hate pre-sented )>> the tlass of 1S7,?. There are a numher of these
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SllvAW li\l P \V 0\ IKA.NMIN Mil.P. heantifnl j^ates and memorials in various parts of the campus.The stretch hefore us is Hamilton Walk. On either side arctrees which have heen planted as memorials to eminent reim-sylvanians. To the left of us arc the dormitory houses, whichform the southern houndary of various courts. The first huild\u^ to our ri.uht is the Zoido^ical nuildin)L». It contains ninety-two rooms, and is devoted entirely to study and research workin zor>lo)^y. The .ie\t huihlinvi to om* ri).;ht is the Vivarium.which contains fresh and salt water tanks for live specimensfor zoological research. 41 The next building to our right, completely covered with ivy,is Botanical Hall, and immediately in the rear are the green-houses ; among the plants housed there are a number of rareand valuable collections of orchids and fly-trap plants. In thehall itselT are the famous Bartram and Stille P)Otanical IJbraries.Behind this group of buildings are the botanical gardens, inwhich t

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