“Some idea of how the other great universities of the country compare with regard to the number of students attending them with this new university of Philadelphia is shown by the following table: 

Name.  Number of Students,

Temple University 7,000

Harvard 5,393

Yale 2,995

Pennsylvania 2,692

Princeton 1,373

“The Temple University building will be eight stories high, at least that is the plan the trustees have in mind at present, but the structure will be so built that a height of two stories may be added at any time.  It will have a frontage of 129 feet on Broad Street and 140 feet on Brown Street.  The corner property was deeded as a gift to Temple College by the Broad and Brown Streets Church and the College then purchased the adjoining property on Broad Street.  In appreciation of the gift the College has offered the use of the university chapel, which will be built in the building, to the Broad and Brown Streets Church congregation for a place of worship.

“The university will be built of stone, and while not an elaborate structure, it will be substantial and suitable in every respect and imposing in its very simplicity.

“In addition to the university offices there will be a large gymnasium, a free dispensary, departments of medicine, theology, law, engineering, sciences, and, in fact, all the branches of learning that are taught in any of the great universities.  There will be a library and lecture room for every department, pathological and chemical laboratories and a sufficient number of classrooms to preclude crowding of students for the next ten or fifteen years.

“There are now one hundred and thirty-five instructors in Temple College, but when the university is opened this number will be increased to three hundred.

“The present college building, which adjoins the Baptist Temple, will continue to be used, but only for the normal classes and lower grade of work.  The building will be remodeled.  The dwelling adjoining the college which has been occupied as the theological department will be vacated when the university is completed.

“Dr. Conwell, the father of Temple College and who in years to come will be spoken of as the father of Temple University, said yesterday: 

“’It will be a university for busy people, the same as the college has been a college for busy people.  Our institution reaches and benefits a class—­in some respects the greatest class—­of persons who want to study and enlarge their education, but cannot attend the other universities and colleges for financial reasons and because of their business.