Philadelphia hosts some universities,
which own huge parts of the city. Students of the various universities
can choose apartments, flats or even whole houses; only depending from their
financial situation. Whole streets with typical American family-houses belong
to the universities.
The campus of the private Penn University is a huge area
too, quiet streets without car use flanked by a varied mixture of architecture.
Many buildings are classical British university style, some historism, and many
modern from the 1960s onwards.
The Penn University claims
to be founded by Benjamin Franklin and to be the fourth-oldest university in
the United States.
"Penn's educational
innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765; the first
university teaching hospital in 1874; the Wharton School, the world's first
collegiate school of business, in 1881; the first American student union
building, Houston Hall, in 1896; the country's second school of veterinary
medicine; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale,
general-purpose digital computer in 1946. Penn is also home to the oldest continuously
functioning psychology department in North America and is where the American
Medical Association was founded. Penn was also the first university to award a
PhD to an African-American woman, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, in 1921 (in
economics)." (From Wikipedia)
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| the door to Erina's flat |
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| here we got a great breakfast |
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| at the breakfast |
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| Erina in her new flat |
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