Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and may becalled English Collegiate. The building is three stories highand is one of the most spacious and best furnished club housesin Philadelphia. The interior finish is of quartered oak, indark brown shades. Supporting the roof of the auditorium onthe second floor are trusses of elaborate design, adapted fromthose in the Great Hall at Eltham Palace, Kent. The device usedin a decorative way so frequently is an interweaving of HowardHoustons initials with the Early Christian symbol of TheLamb of God. On the first floor is a spacious lounging or general receptionroom. In the east wing arc writing rooms and a library readingroom, in which are kept current magazines and newspapers and alibrary of the best IJiglish literature; the west wing of the firstfloor and part of the basement are fitted up with billiard and ))0()1tables, supply store, barber shop, etc. The otlices of the club,the cloak room, and the University branch oi the United State?post olTice are located on the first floor.
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y0^\ 48 On the second floor is a restaurant, an auditorium with a grandorgan, and a suite of three Trophy Rooms. In tlie latter aredisplayed many prizes won in athletic competition, and on thewalls are panels and tablets giving the names and records of dis-tinguished athletes. The Christian Association of the Universityalso occupies a suite of rooms on this floor. On the third floor are the offices of the Recorder of the Univer-sity, and a dark room for amateur i)hotographers, and severalsociety rooms in which various student societies hold thenmonthlv meetings. The valuable collection of framed photographs, illustratmgmasterpieces of architecture and sculpture, and representing the

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