(S.H. Church to Andrew Carnegie, January 16, 1908)

Church, Samuel Harden--Correspondence
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence
Western University of Pennsylvania
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
University of Pittsburgh
McCormick, Samuel B.
Carnegie Institute. Technical Schools
Hamerschlag, Arthur Arton
Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Institute. Dept. of Fine Arts
Carnegie Museum
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Music theory
Orchestra
Organ (Musical instrument)
Degrees, Academic--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh

A typescript letter from Samuel H. Church to Andrew Carnegie about the site for the ""new university"", presumably for the new location of the Western University of Pennsylvania. It will eventually be located in Oakland a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. and will be renamed to the University of Pittsburgh once it is built in 1908. Church states he had a long talk with Chancellor Samuel Black McCormick of the Western University of Pennsylvania about the new university. He states that there is not enough room for the new university to be built on the ""Technical Schools"" site as Mr. Hamerschlag needs room for growth for the Carnegie Institute, Technical Schools. Church proposes that the new university be built on the ""Schenley tract"". Church suggests that they wait to ""amalgamate"" the new university to Carnegie Institute until the buildings are built for the Western University of Pennsylvania. He then writes that the Chancellor at the new university ""will be glad to come to us when we are ready to launch our great university of the Fine Arts"". Church remarks that once this is accomplished there will be the Carnegie Institute, Technical Schools, the new university, classes in the Carnegie Institute's Art department, demonstrations in natural science at the Carnegie Museum and the ""systematic study of books in the Library."" There is a handwritten notation at the bottom of the letter that states there should be mention in a later letter of Music theory by means of the Orchestra and Organ and the power to confer degrees by the Carnegie Institute brought to them by the Chancellor. Typed ""Union Station, Pittsburgh, Pa."" at head of letter.

Church, Samuel Harden-

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, William R. Oliver Special Collections Room

1/16/1908

Letter; Text

image/jp2; [1] p. ; 28 cm.

Box E, Series 2, FF 17

English

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