Old Penn and After
Every so often, for one reason or another, I have occasion to look through old issues of the Gazette and its predecessor, Old Penn. I’m always fascinated, for reasons both contradictory and complementary.
Who’s Who?
Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic
Print Run: The Daily Pennsylvanian Celebrates 125 Years
Milestone mashup: DP celebrates 125 years
Objects of Memory
Window, May|Jun 2009
Old School Politics
Window, Jan|Feb 2008
Mr. Meyerson Comes to Town
Martin Meyerson Hon’70’s low-key first day as president of the University.
Bringing Penn’s Treasures Back Home
Display highlights Penn treasures—and collector who found them.
Help Where Needed
From the archives: University medical team dispatched to the Beni-Messous Hospital in Algiers to provide care in the wake of Algeria’s War of Independence.
Yesterday’s Plans for Tomorrow
“Whither Pennsylvania in the 1970s?”
A Very Selective Class
Window, Jul|Aug 2006
Flying High
Trail blazer Hugh deLaussett Willoughby C1877
No, This Isn’t Hogwarts
Keys to the University presented to President Gutmann.
Window
A rosette is a rosette?
Winning, Losing, Learning
Two views of Quaker football, from the bottom and the top of the Ivy League.
Back to the Future
Throughout the 21st century, Penn continues to make waves and reinvent itself—in surprising ways, as a bicentennial timeline from a 2102 Gazette shows.
Building Penn’s Brand
How the architecture of the campus—and the coverage it received in the Gazette—has reflected the University's changing image of itself.
On the Dreaded Day, an Elusive Burd Visits the Electricity Room
Exam anxiety, in 1765
Finals
Here’s Ben, Where’s Penn?
Finals
“Listen, Worm …”
Finals
Front Runner
A Selective (Old) Penn Chronology 1902-1918
Our first Centennial timeline covers 1902 to 1918, when Old Penn becomes the Gazette (and World War I ended).
Whiskey, Loose Women, and Fig Leaves
The University’s seal has a curious history.