May 1998
Vol. 96, No. 7
Dear Doc Schelling
The original copies of the following letters, written by Ezra Pound to Felix Schelling and other people at Penn over a 20-year period, are in the special-collections department of Van Pelt Library. No attempts have been made to correct Pound's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar.
Not the Alumni Notes
Underachievers, take heart! Alumni news for the rest of us.
A River of Words
How a New Yorker essay helped save a river from destruction -- and one Penn alumnus from a career in law.
Reflections on the Roman World
The curator of a show of Roman glass now at the University Museum tells how the ancient glassworking industry reveals as much about the Romans as their architecture, thirst for conquest, or tendency to murder their emperors.
Letters
Apr 1998: Philos find fault, unanswered questions on eligibility, rewriting letters.
Choosing Community
College houses promise academic support and creative leadership.
Running in Circles?
What gets lost in the rush to achieve.
Have You Heard the One About the Traveling Book-Salesman?
Sample books cast light on 19th-century bookselling
A Wheelchair for All Seasons
All-terrain wheelchair prototyped
Shooting Leaves One Dead and a Penn Student Injured
Student wounded by stray bullet
Twelve Months of Penn Men
Penn men for every month
Iran in the Khatami Era: Cracks in the Wall of Mistrust
Thaw between U.S. and Iran?
Largesse for the Law School
Penn's Law School has received a $15 million gift -- the largest outright gift ever made to an American law school.
Three-peat for Penn’s Wrestlers
Win at Princeton brings third consecutive Ivy championship.
Illuminating the Universe
All about everything. Empire of Light. Football fever in 1960s Dallas. Cotton Bowl Days.
View
Robert Slutzky's 50 years of painting.
Alumni Notes
April 1998
An Executive Collection
Keith Herrmann
Opening up the Stock Market
Alfred Berkeley III
East Meets West in Pediatric Care
Leslie Mancuso
Top-Gun Lawyer Aces Pentagon
Herb Fenster
Now Leading Off for the Phillies: Doug Glanville
Doug Glanville
Obituaries
April 1998