[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 92 (Wednesday, July 7, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1308]
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  IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE 
                               UNIVERSITY

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 7, 2004

  Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
congratulate the students, alumni, faculty and administration of The 
Pennsylvania State University, known more familiarly as Penn State, as 
the school turns 150 this year.
  Established in 1855 as a land grant college, it began modestly as a 
one-building agriculture school in the center of Pennsylvania. Because 
there was not even a town there at the time, the town that grew up 
around the school eventually became incorporated as State College. In 
testimony to the grit and hardworking tradition of Pennsylvanians, Penn 
State grew quickly in size as well as academic stature among 
institutions of higher learning.
  Penn State can be proud of its academic tradition. The university 
boasts a wide array of academic achievements in countless disciplines, 
from agriculture to engineering, from mathematics to meteorology, from 
the arts to applied research. Penn State is well-known and respected in 
national collegiate athletics for the strict academic standards it 
applies to its athletes. Penn State intercollegiate athletes graduate 
at a rate significantly above the national average. This sets a 
national example not only to other collegiate athletes but to college 
and high school students as well.
  I am proud to join my Pennsylvania Colleagues in paying tribute to an 
institution that has so enriched Pennsylvania and our nation 
academically and culturally.

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