HAPPY 232nd Birthday PITT!
- Thread starter CrazyPaco
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To bad Elaine just ate the last slice of birthday cake from the bi-centennial birthday......
It's a lot of horse manure if anyone claims that it wasn't!
22nd oldest in america
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.niche.com/blog/the-25-oldest-colleges-in-america/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.niche.com/blog/the-25-oldest-colleges-in-america/amp/
W&J is taking some liberties with their founding date. They were actually chartered in September 1787. They extend the date to a separate log cabin school, located 25 miles away from Washington, PA, that was run by what would be a future founding trustee of Washington Academy. Pitt is older than W&J by 7 months, so it is fair to say Pitt is the 21st oldest.
Penn also stretches things as well, dating its founding back to the construction of its first building, which did not hold the college at the time. If Pitt applied the same approach, it could certainly date its founding back earlier than 1787, possibly by a decade, as it is likely log cabin-based academies were held at the point before Pittsburgh Academy was chartered and Pitt probably took over a cabin already providing instruction. Unfortunately, most of the Pitt's early records were lost in a series of major fires that destroyed downtown Pittsburgh in the 1840s.
