Download or read book History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940 written by Edward Potts Cheyney and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his history of the University of Pennsylvania from its founding to its bicentennial anniversary.