Penn History A Pennsylvania Album The Modern Urban University By James A. Bessin Contents Front Matter Introduction Franklin’s Academy: The University’s Foundation The College of Philadelphia and the Politics of Revolution, 1755-1779 The Establishment of the Law School National Crisis, Institutional Change: Penn and the Civil War Charles J. Stille: University Builder Rites of Passage: Student Traditions and Class Fights The Quadrangle Blacks at Penn, Then and Now Women at Penn in the 1950s The Modern Urban University Endnotes « Back to A Pennsylvania Album: Undergraduate Essays on the 250th Anniversary Return to top « Women at Penn in the 1950sEndnotes »