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Show HONOR MEMORY OF FRANKLIN University of Pennsylvania Will Erect Heroic Statue of Its Great Founder. The memory of Benjamin Franklin, founder In 1740 of the University of Pennsylvania, Is to be honored by the erection of a bronze statue at a. cost of $10,000, on the tenth anniversary of the class of 1904, college, in June, 1914. The statue will be placed in front of the gymnasium on Thirty-third street, near Spruce. The statue will be of heroic proportions, and will rep-1 rep-1 resent Franklin as he first appeared in Philadelphia as a runaway printer's apprentice. It has been modeled by Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, professor of physical education, who has modeled j several medallions for the university and figures of athletes which have at-: at-: tained celebrity for their life-like poti-! poti-! tures. The base of the statue has I been designed by Prof. Henry Cret of the architectural school. |