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The International Affairs Association (IAA) is the largest self funded student organization at the University of Pennsylvania, with the goal of promoting awareness of International Affairs. The club, founded 45 years ago is composed as several semi-independent but centrally funded programs, which each promote awareness of international ...
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
The Zelosophic Society, one of the two oldest senior societies at the University of Pennsylvania, was founded in 1829 as an alternative to its rival literary society, Philomathean Society (which was established 1813). Per Penn archives, “Zelosophic” is translated roughly as “endowed with a zeal for learning or wisdom” and its members ...
Memorial Tower (1901), at 37th & Spruce Streets. The Upper Quad, looking west. The Quadrangle was the first major dormitory built by the university. [4] Prior to its construction, the undergraduate components of the College (25 to 50 percent of student body) was populated by many commuters from Philadelphia-area residents; students from elsewhere lived in fraternities, Philadelphia relatives ...
Herman Vandenburg Ames (/ eɪ m z /; August 7, 1865 – February 7, 1935) was an American legal historian, archivist, and professor of United States constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania and, from 1907 to 1928, dean of its graduate school.
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Rowbottom is a tradition of civil disorder that was practiced by the students of the University of Pennsylvania throughout most of the 20th century. The first "Rowbottom" occurred in 1910; the exact details of how the tradition started, and how it got the name Rowbottom, vary. [1] [2]