The Pennsylvanian in an editorial complaining of how little regard is paid to the University of Pennsylvania as a University fit to rank side by side with Harvard and Yale says:

"We have every reason to claim for ourselves a place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania are content to hide our light under a bushel. We have a corps of professors at least equal to that of any institution in America: we have open to us courses of study in all directions; we can become classical scholars, philologists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, botanists, financiers, biologists, physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons, lawyers - in the different departments which our Alma Mater provides for our use. We draw students from all over the world; no college - not even Harvard - has men from so many foreign countries. Two-thirds of the States of the Union are represented on our rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage in Aristotle "stump" a whole class in Berlin University, until it came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew how to teach Greek!" And that is beginning to be the world's comment: "We do not hear much of the University of Pennsylvania, but when it does speak, its words tell."