Intercollegiate Athletics at Pennsylvania: Corruption and Penitence.

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Intercollegiate Athletics at Pennsylvania: Corruption and Penitence.

This paper examines the transformation of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1880s to 1930s. It focuses on the degeneration of athletics in the years when it was dominated by influential alumni and the significance of the reform introduced under the Thomas S. Gates administration in the 1930s.

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University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Gates, Thomas Sovereign, 1873-1948.

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Greene, Samuel Mitchell.

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Samuel Mitchell Greene graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor's degree in Arts in 1993. This paper was a Senior Honors Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Senior Honors in American History program. From the description of Intercollegiate Athletics at Pennsylvania: Corruption and Penitence. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122318311 ...