On this day in 1749, inspired by Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet, Proposals for the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, a group of two dozen citizens of Philadelphia met to form an Academy. Their plan specified that the academy should be non-sectarian and should prepare students for careers in business and public service, rather than in the clergy. Franklin himself agreed to serve as President of the Board of Trustees. Two years later the Philadelphia Academy opened its doors and from that beginning grew into today's University of Pennsylvania, one of the great unversities of the nation, indeed the world. Here are some pictures of the campus as it appears today.
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