I second Matt's motion. And while we're at it, let's give it the proper designation -- BLOCKLEY ASYLUM:
Dr. J. Chalmers Da Costa, head doctor and physician-in-chief at the time, described the Asylum thus: "Blockley is the microcosm of the city. Within these gray walls we find all sorts of physical and mental diseases, and also a multitude of those social maladies that degrade man-hood, undermine national strength and threaten civilization itself. Here is drunkenness; here is pauperism; here is illegitimacy; here is madness; here are the eternal priestesses of prostitution who sacrifice for the sins of man; here is crime in all its protean aspects, and here is vice in all its monstrous forms." And we all know that the University of Pennsylvania now occupies the grounds of the old Asylum. -- Ross Bender http://rossbender.org/hd.html On 4/6/07, J. Matthew Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any sentiment out there to change from the contrived "University City" to the historically correct (or at least somewhat historically correct) name of "Blockley," which was the name of the estate of an early property owner – I think named form his home in England – and later incorporated in the name of Blockley Township, an area which encompassed much of the area prior to the City-County consolidation in 1854?
