The University officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin's institution was established, it inhabited a schoolhouse built in 1740 for another school, which never came to practical fruition. Penn archivist Mark Frazier Lloyd ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 3 juni 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110603231438/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231. Läst 3 juni 2011. notes: “In 1899, Penn’s Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755, when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia." Princeton's library ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 13 juni 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613080012/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml. Läst 20 januari 2010. presents another, diplomatically phrased view.
The University officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin's institution was established, it inhabited a schoolhouse built in 1740 for another school, which never came to practical fruition. Penn archivist Mark Frazier Lloyd ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 3 juni 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110603231438/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231. Läst 3 juni 2011. notes: “In 1899, Penn’s Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755, when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia." Princeton's library ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 13 juni 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613080012/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml. Läst 20 januari 2010. presents another, diplomatically phrased view.
The University officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin's institution was established, it inhabited a schoolhouse built in 1740 for another school, which never came to practical fruition. Penn archivist Mark Frazier Lloyd ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 3 juni 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110603231438/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231. Läst 3 juni 2011. notes: “In 1899, Penn’s Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755, when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia." Princeton's library ”Arkiverade kopian”. Arkiverad från originalet den 13 juni 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613080012/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml. Läst 20 januari 2010. presents another, diplomatically phrased view.
