Chronicling/University of Pittsburgh history
May 10, 1822—The Rev. Robert Bruce is installed as the first principal of the Western University of Pennsylvania, successor to the Pittsburgh Academy and predecessor of the University of Pittsburgh. In his inaugural address, the Scottish-born Bruce said that “he hoped the University might soon own a rich library and apparatus for the teaching of science; he hoped further that it might soon set up a school of medicine,” according to Robert C. Alberts’ Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986).
Other Stories From This Issue
On the Freedom Road
Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.
Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons
