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32-561: Philomathean Society, was founded on October 2, 1813, by all thirteen members of the junior class, its original purpose being "the advancement of learning;" a counterweight and complement to Penn's academic coursework. In the first meeting, the title of Moderator was chosen for the Society’s presiding officer; two Censores Morum were appointed by the third meeting, who were given the responsibility, maintained to this day, of fining members for various real or imaginary infractions. Philo’s first meeting

64-456: A hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II . The DP broke away from the university in 1962 to become an independent publication, incorporating in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university. Also in 1962 the previously all-male daily began to accept female students. Among the early few women were Mary Selman Hadar, formerly an editor at The Washington Post ; Clara Bargellini, today

96-473: A literary magazine. Its nickname is Philo. In addition to its eight general meetings, Philo has regular afternoon teas with professors and sponsors other academic events such as lecture series, film series, and other events. Most of these events center around inviting one or more Penn professors to the Halls to present their research, some of them involve celebrating the social, cultural, and spiritual value created by

128-472: A professor of Mexican art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ; and Susan Nagler Perloff, a Philadelphia freelance writer. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by professional and student staff. The DP is sometimes called Penn's "unofficial journalism department," because the university has no journalism department (though it does have

160-469: A regular literary exercise, and an official lecture series, among many other Philomathean customs. Ludwig also established the tradition of Philo's graduates, or "senior members", participating in the Society's activities and taking an ongoing interest in the welfare of the Society. Finally, in 1969, after a determined campaign of lobbying university administrators for permission and senior members for donations,

192-609: A selection of McFarland's poems, Over the Summer Water, with an introduction by Hoffman. Hoffman was one of Philadelphia's Franklin Inn Club notable members. Daniel Hoffman was one of the named plaintiffs in "Authors Guild vs. Google" (2005), the purpose of which was to prevent Google from providing a complete searchable index of extant books. Hoffman died in an assisted living facility in Haverford, Pennsylvania, on March 30, 2013. He

224-498: A single member, Hilary Putnam , who tried to preserve the Philomathean customs and arranged informal meetings in members' apartments. After the war, the Society held more formal meetings and grew in membership, but it was not until 1951, under the direction of Moderator Charles Fine Ludwig, that the old pre-war customs were revived. Ludwig re-acquired the Philomathean archives and reintroduced academic attire, consistent meeting minutes,

256-560: The Daily Pennsylvanian and the Mask and Wig Club. In 1858, the Society published the first complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone . The work was performed solely by three undergraduate members, Charles R. Hale , S. Huntington Jones, and Henry Morton . The translation quickly sold out two editions and was internationally hailed as a monumental work of scholarship. In 1988,

288-803: The American Poets' Corner . Hoffman won the Hazlett Memorial Award in 1984. He won the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry from The Sewanee Review in 2003. He won the 2005 Arthur Rense Poetry Prize "for an exceptional poet" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He won the Memorial Medal of the Magyar P.E.N. for his translations of contemporary Hungarian poetry, and several grants and fellowships, including those from

320-677: The Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities . He received an honorary degree from Swarthmore College in 2005. Hoffman was married for 57 years to Elizabeth McFarland (1922–2005), a poet herself as well as the poetry editor of Ladies' Home Journal , from 1948 until that magazine stopped publishing verse in 1961. From 1965 the couple spent summers in Brooksville, Maine . In 2008 Orchises Press brought out

352-601: The Newspaper Association of America Foundation in 1990, 1997, 1998, 2000-2004, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2024. It was ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage and, in 2008, it was awarded an online Gold Crown for thedp.com. Daniel Hoffman Daniel Gerard Hoffman (April 3, 1923 – March 30, 2013)

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384-666: The British Museum bestowed the honor of including the Philomathean Rosetta Stone Report in its select bibliography of the most important works ever published on the Rosetta Stone. The Philomathean Society maintains a full-scale cast of the stone in its meeting room, along with several original lithograph prints of the report. In 1916, Philo became the first Penn group to require its members to take an oath not to discriminate based on race, creed, and religion; in 1948

416-601: The Button , a satirical publication, also regularly publish content online. The organization operates three principal websites: thedp.com, 34st.com, and underthebutton.com. It has received various collegiate journalism awards. The Daily Pennsylvanian was founded in 1885 as a successor to the University Magazine , a publication by the Philomathean Society . The newspaper has been published daily since 1894, except for

448-420: The Button satirical publication , as well as four newsletters: Daybreak, The Toast, Quaker Nation, and Penn, Unbuttoned. The Daily Pennsylvanian is published in print once per week when the university is in session, by a staff of more than 400 students. Content is also published online on a daily basis. 34th Street Magazine , an arts and culture magazine, which is published once a month in print, and Under

480-741: The DP was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists ' National Mark of Excellence Award. In the same year, the paper won the Spring 2008 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to eight college newspapers nationwide. It received first place in the Associated Collegiate Press 's Kansas City Convention Best of Show Competition in 2008. The DP won the Pacemaker , awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and

512-586: The Society at large. The society is governed by a Cabinet of ten officers: the Moderator, First Censor, Second Censor, Scriba, Recorder, Treasurer, Librarian, Archivist, Annual Oration Director, and Art Gallery Director. The first four, often termed "the Bench" about their position during meetings, are attired in full academic gown at all society meetings, held eight times per semester on the top floor of College Hall, on Friday evenings. The position of Annual Oration Director

544-526: The Society is by application; all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are eligible for membership except in their final semester of study. Applications consist of three parts: an interview with four to five members of the Society, a presentation on a topic of the applicant's choice to a General Meeting of the Society, and a submission of creative or critical value. Members are elected once each academic semester by

576-538: The Society returned to its beloved Philomathean Halls on the fourth floor of College Hall, where it has remained (with brief absences for maintenance) until the present day. The name Philomathean is derived from the Greek philomath , which means "a lover of learning." The motto of the Philomathean Society is Sic itur ad astra (Latin for "thus we proceed to the stars" ). Philo intermittently publishes Philomel ,

608-595: The Society voted to admit women as full members, prompting the headline "Philo hits rock bottom, admits women". The Society vehemently defended the decision more than 25 years before women were admitted to the university proper. In 1927, overcrowding at the university led the Philos to agree to vacate their space in College Hall in exchange for temporary quarters in Houston Hall until more class space could be found. Houston Hall

640-433: The first public screening of the debate in the world since the original 1971 broadcast. Debate topics included human nature, justice, creativity and war. Since then, Philo has been the venue of many debates about matters central to modern society, such as a discussion of whether a tomato is a grape or a metaphor for Homeric authorship. On March 28, 2019, Philo hosted a talk by US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith . Membership in

672-607: The founder of the Philadelphia Museum of Art , The Daily Pennsylvanian , Mask and Wig and the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl . Prominent Philomatheans have included: Several other societies share the Philomathean name. Among them are: Daily Pennsylvanian The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania . The DP, Inc. publishes The Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper, 34th Street magazine, and Under

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704-671: The latter as Felix Schelling Professor of English Emeritus, and its Philomathean Society in 1996 published an anthology of poetry in honor of his efforts to bring contemporary poets to give readings in their halls. He was a chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets . From 1988 to 1999, he served as Poet in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he administered

736-508: The post-Wordsworthian world." He has since published ten additional collections of poetry, a memoir, and seven volumes of criticism. Reviewing Beyond Silence in The New York Times Book Review in 2003, Eric McHenry found Hoffman a poet of remarkable consistency, "no less joyful or engaged at 80 than he was at 25." Hoffman taught at Columbia University, Swarthmore College , and the University of Pennsylvania . He retired from

768-668: The present day. When the University of Pennsylvania moved its campus from Ninth Street to West Philadelphia in 1872, four rooms at the top of College Hall were specifically built for the use of the Society and its rival Zelosophic Society . After the first collapse of the Zelosophic Society in 1872, the former Zelo rooms reverted to Philo. The Society is credited with helping to found entire academic departments, including American Civilization, Comparative Literature, and History of Science, and many campus groups and publications, including

800-507: The prestigious Annenberg School for Communication ), and because many of its staff members go on to pursue careers in the print, broadcast, and digital media. DP alumni can be found at a number of major daily newspapers and national magazines, including The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , The Washington Post , Forbes , the Los Angeles Times , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Time , and Business Week . In 2008,

832-460: The university and a distinguished poet in his own right, had brought many renowned poets and authors, including John Updike , Seamus Heaney , Joyce Carol Oates , and Yevgeny Yevtushenko , to read in the Philomathean Halls. On February 16, 2010, Philo hosted a public screening of the 1971 internationally televised debate between philosophers Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault . Philo's was

864-522: The work of Nancy Ajram. Society members are given freedom to plan events fitting their personal and intellectual interests, which has led to events as varied as art exhibitions, chamber concerts, math olympiads, and the Poe Vespertil. The Society has published several books, including, most recently, The Philomathean Society Anthology of Poetry in Honor of Daniel Hoffman  — Hoffman, a former professor at

896-526: Was added in the early 2010s to provide additional support for the increased role of the Annual Oration, and the position of Art Gallery Director was added in 2019. Every year, Philo presents a public annual oration to the University, given by a prominent figure in the arts and sciences. Recent orations have included the following: Philomatheans have included at least seven United States Representatives , three United States Senators , two ambassadors , and

928-620: Was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. Hoffman was born in New York City. During World War II , he served in the Army Air Corps , where he served stateside as a technical writer and as the editor of an aeronautical research journal, experiences detailed in his memoir Zone of the Interior. He

960-526: Was educated at Columbia University , earning a B.A. (1947), an M.A. (1949), and a Ph.D. (1956). He was a member of the Boar's Head Society there. In 1954, Hoffman published his first collection of poetry, An Armada of Thirty Whales. This collection was chosen by W. H. Auden as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets , and Auden commended it in his introduction as "providing a new direction for nature poetry in

992-417: Was not an ideal location: space constraints and building policy, especially the 11:30 p.m. curfew, severely limited Philo traditions. As a result, Society membership decreased, a trend further exacerbated by the outbreak of World War II, when Houston Hall was taken over by the U.S. Navy as part of its officer training program, and former Philo rooms were requisitioned for storage. The Society had dwindled to

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1024-640: Was on Friday night, at which time it would remain up to the present day. Minutes of the Society’s Meetings have been kept (relatively) faithfully in large leather-bound volumes since the first Meeting. Members still sign the Recorder’s Roll upon their initiation into the Society, following the tradition started by the founders. Early meetings were dominated by spirited debates and literary exercises where members would present original research, essays, or literary productions; both practices have continued through

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