NANTICOKE STATE HOSPITAL, NANTICOKE, LUZERNE COUNTY. President-John E. Morris, Alden, Luzerne County. Secretary-James E. Bergin, Nanticoke, Luzerne County. T. D. Shea, Nanticoke, Luzerne County. Resident Officers. Superintendent and Surgeon-E. G. Heyer, M. D. This hospital was organized by the Nanticoke Hospital Association in 1907 and was completed and ready for occupancy on October 12, 1909. In accordance with an Act of the Legislature of June 14, 1911, P. L. 933, the hospital became a State institution in April, 1913. The hospital's special purpose is to take care of persons injured in and about the mines of Nanticoke and surrounding territory and since it became a State institution the number of patients has materially increased. Receipts for the year ending May 31, 1922, $83,951.16; expenditures, $82,667.63; number of patients June 1, 1922, 85, number of officers and employes, 60; present valuation of all real estate, $300,000.00; of personal property, $10,206.50. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated $20,000.00 for deficiency in maintenance; also $93,000.00 for maintenance, the completion of building and improvements. COTTAGE STATE HOSPITALS FOR INJURED PERSONS OF THE BITUMINOUS AND SEMIBITUMINOUS COAL REGIONS. The Cottage State Hospitals for Injured Persons of the Bituminous and SemiBituminous Coal Regions are four in number, and are located at Mercer, Mercer County; Philipsburg, Centre County; Connellsville, Fayette County; and Blossburg, Tioga County. They were created by an Act approved June 14, 1887, P. L. 401, which required, among other things, that the land upon which the hospitals were to be built should be donated to the State. These hospitals are especially devoted to the care and treatment of persons injured in and about the mines. Each hospital is controlled by a board of nine trustees, appointed by the Governor. Following will be found their management, and other statistics concerning them. COTTAGE STATE HOSPITAL, BLOSSBURG, TIOGA COUNTY. President-William J. O'Donnell, Morris Run, Tioga County. Secretary-Howard S. Kiess, Blossburg, Tioga County. Treasurer-F. B. Smith, Blossburg, Tioga County. Frederick G. Davis, Blossburg, Tioga County. George E. Darby, Wesfield, Tioga County. Resident Officers. Superintendent and Surgeon-in-chief-L. G. Cole, M. D. Directress of Nurses-Miss Gertrude L. Tomlinson, R. N. The Cottage State Hospital at Blossburg, Tioga County, is situated on land eight acres in area, which was donated by citizens of Blossburg. Present value of real estate, $87,629. The buildings were turned over to the board of trustees October 30, 1890; present capacity, 75; first patient was admitted February 19, 1891. State appropriations, 1921-1923: maintenance, $52,000; deficiency in maintenance, $15,000; laundry, $5,000. COTTAGE STATE HOSPITAL, PHILIPSBURG, CENTRE COUNTY. President-Charles B. Maxwell, Morrisdale, Clearfield County. William R. Gallagher, Houtzdale, Clearfield County. Resident Officers. Surgeons-W. B. Henderson, M. D.; W. W. Andrews, M. D.; Austin C. Lynn, M. D. Roentgenologist-A. L. Benson, M. D. Superintendent-Fannie A. Dougherty, R. N. The Cottage State Hospital at Philipsburg, Centre County, is located on a tract of ground containing four acres donated by citizens of Philipsburg. The buildings were turned over to the board of trustees November 28, 1890; first patient was admitted February 23, 1891; present value of real estate, $65,000; personal property, $5,000.00; receipts for the year ending May 31, 1922, $34,380.11; expenditures, $41,737.87; State appropriation for 1921-1923, for maintenance, $37,500.00; for improvements, $2,500.00; for erection of buildings, $50,000.00; deficiency, $12,000.00; total number of patients May 31, 1922, 36; males, 22; females, 14; number of employes, 21. COTTAGE STATE HOSPITAL, MERCER, MERCER COUNTY. President Thomas C. Gibson, Greenville, Mercer County. Q. A. Gordon, Mercer, Mercer County. Harry K. Daugherty, Grove City, Mercer County. Resident Officers. Surgeon-in-Charge-P. T. Hope, M. D. Superintendent and Treasurer-Mary Williams, R. N. The Cottage State Hospital at Mercer is located upon a plot containing about seven acres, donated by the citizens of Mercer and vicinity. The buildings were transferred to the board of trustees, December 30, 1890, and have cost to date, $25,000; cost of furnishings, $5,000; of improvement of grounds, $3,158; present value of all personal property, $7,918.10; receipts for the year ending May 31, 1922, $14,568.52; expenditures, $18,403.20; State appropriation for two years ending June 1, 1923, $17,000.00 for maintenance; capacity, 35 patients; first patient admitted April 21, 1891; total number admitted during 1921, 232; number of patients June 1, 1922, 5; number of nurses, attendants and other employes, 11. COTTAGE STATE HOSPITAL, CONNELLSVILLE, FAYETTE COUNTY. President-George W. Neff, Masontown, Fayette County. Resident Officer. Superintendent-Miss Rebecca M. Jolly.. The Cottage State Hospital at Connellsville is built upon land donated by Colonel J. M. Reid, the plot containing two acres. Cost of buildings, $24,292.35; present value of real estate $40,000; of personal property, $5,500. The buildings were transferred to the board of trustees November 20, 1890; first patient was admitted January 30, 1891; number of nurses and other employes, exclusive of superintendent, 18; the surgical staff is composed of 8 members; capacity of hospital, 36 beds; however, 21 was the monthly average for the year 1921. Receipts for the year 1920-1921, $28,746.78; expenditures, $33,741.34. State appropriation for 1921-1923, maintenance, $24,000.00; improvements, $2,000; ambulance, $3,000; deficiency, $4,994.56. HOME FOR THE TRAINING IN SPEECH OF DEAF CHILDREN BEFORE THEY ARE OF SCHOOL AGE, 2201 BELMONT AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA. Board of Trustees. President J. B. Showalter, 5436 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County. Treasurer-Miss Mary S. Garrett, 2201 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia. Secretary-Roland L. Taylor, Morris Building, Philadelphia. J. George Becht, Harrisburg, Dauphin County. Stevens Heckscher, 1617 Land Title Building, Philadelphia. Resident Officers. Principal-Miss Mary S. Garrett. Office Secretary-Miss Frances Quinn. The home, the erection of which was authorized by the Act approved June 20, 1891, P. L. 371, was finished in 1893, and is located at the intersection of Belmont and Monument Avenues, Philadelphia. A second cottage was afterwards erected. Each of the two cottages is built to accommodate thirty pupils. Children are admitted between the ages of two and eight, and given a six years' course from time of entrance, uninterrupted by vacations, during which time they are given the articulate speech, language and speech reading through the eye which will enable them to be educated in schools for the hearing. Dull children are given a longer course according to their individual needs. The children who have finished their preparatory course here are being most successfully educated in the public schools with hearing children, and the boys are learning their trades with hearing people, at no expense to the State. Number of pupils June 1, 1922, 60; males, 39; females 21 (State pupils); also 2 female pay pupils; receipts to May 31, 1922, State of Pennsylvania, $29,791.63, pay pupils, $1,124.00; interest, $198.01; refunds and other sources, $190.12; total, $31,303,76; expenditures to May 31, 1922, $38,398.23; number of instructors, 8; other employes, 19; present value of all real estate and personal property, $117,697.67. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated $19,981.46 for deficit in maintenance to June 1, 1921, and for maintenance and repairs, for the two years ending May 31, 1923, $68,500.00. PENNSYLVANIA STATE ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY. Board of Trustees. President G. d'Andelot Belin, Scranton, Lackawanna County. Secretary and Treasurer-H. R. Kinsley, Scranton, Lackawanna County. Louis Arthur Watres, County Bank Building, Scranton, Lackawanna County. Frank H. Jarvis, Tunkhannock, Wyoming County. Frank E. Platt, Scranton, Lackawanna County. Edwin C. Rogers, Montrose, Susquehanna County. Michael J. Hoban, 315 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Lackawanna County. Resident Officer. Principal-Miss Kathrine G. Van Dusen. This school was originally a private institution, established in 1884, and under an Act approved May 8, 1913, P. L. 163, a commission was appointed to examine into the advisability of its transfer to the Commonwealth, and by an Act approved June 15, 1915, P. L. 188, said commission was authorized and empowered to accept the school, including all its buildings, grounds and equipment upon the execution by said institution to the Commonwealth of an assignment of the surface rights in and to the said grounds of the said institution and the assignment and transfer to the Commonwealth of all its buildings, equipment, affairs and accounts. This School is intended for the instruction of deaf children by the Oral Methed. All classes of deaf children are received, those born deaf as well as those too hard of hearing to be taught in the public school. By a rule of the institution children are not received under six years of age, except in special cases, Number of pupils June 1, 1922, male, 49; female, 39; receipts for the year ending May 31, 1922, $44,068.83; expenditures, $44,126.05; deficit, $1,973.48, from 1921; number of instructors, 11; other employes, 17. Present valuation of real estate, $190,000.00; personal property, $15,000.00. State appropriation for two years ending May 31, 1923, is $75,000.00 for maintenance; total cost of buildings, $110,000.00; estimated deficit May 31, 1923, $25,000. This institution is governed by a board of nine trustees appointed by the Gov ernor. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA. The University of Pennsylvania traces its beginning to the year 1740. Benjamin Franklin, in 1749, published a pamphlet, entitled Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, which led to the formation of a board of twenty-four trustees, nineteen of whom, on the 13th of November, 1749, met for organization and to promote "the Publick Academy in the City of Philadelphia," and elected Benjamin Franklin president of the board, an office which he held until 1756. So closely was Franklin identified with the plan that Matthew Arnold called the institution "the University of Franklin." On the 1st of February, 1750, there was conveyed to this Board of Trustees the "New Building" on Fourth Street, near Arch, which had been erected in 1740 for a Charity School and as a "house of Publick Worship," in which George Whitefield had preached in November, 1740; the original trustees (including Franklin) of the "New Building" and of its projected charity school date from 1740, and therefore the University attaches to its seal the words "Founded 1740." In the "New Building" the Academy was opened on the 7th of January, 1751, the city having voted £200 in the preceding August for the completion of the building. On the 16th of September, 1751, a Charitable School for the instruction of poor Children gratis in Reading, Writing and Arithmetick" was opened in the "New Building." The proprietaries Thomas and Richard Penn incorporated "The Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania" in 1753; and in 1755 issued a confirmatory charter, changing the corporate name to "The Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School," etc., whereupon William Smith (1727-1803) of the University of Aberdeen, who had become rector of the Academy in 1752 and had taken orders in the Church of England in 1753, became provost of the College. In 1756 Dr. Smith established a complete and liberal curriculum which was adopted by Bishop James Madison in 1777, when he became president of the College of William and Mary. Provost William Smith's plan was also adopted by, and is still used as the basis of Academic instruction in most of the American Colleges and Universities. In 1757 the first college class was graduated. Under Dr. Smith's control the Latin school grew in importance at the expense of the English school, to the great annoyance of Franklin, who wished much attention given to English composition anl public speaking. In 1762-1764 Dr. Smith collected for the college in England about £6,900; and in 1764 his influence had become so strong that it was feared that the college would become sectarian. The Penns and others deprecated this and the trustees bound themselves to "use their utmost endeavors that...... ..... [the original plan] be not narrowed, nor the members of the Church of England, nor those dissenting from them.... ....be put on any worse footing in this seminary than they were at the time of receiving the royal brief." From September, 1777, to June, 1778, college sessions were temporarily discontinued because Philadelphia was held by British troops. "The Revolution was on, the Declaration of Independence had been signed, and the first Constitution of the Commonwealth had been adopted. And now, for the |