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Association of Past Students, which became the predecessor to the Duquesne University Alumni Association. Another shrewd decision was made when the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club's dam broke on the
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in 1891. Though that sort of production was not well-suited to
Pittsburgh's working-class population, the play was a success, and earned the college $ 1,000—most likely because Murphy had decided to provide verbal introductions in English before each act.
306:. As a result, Pittsburgh's drinking water became even more undrinkable than usual. Murphy had a 150-foot (46 m) well dug behind the Administration Building in response, and the pump became a gathering place for students until it was capped in 1938.
251:, where he was sent to help the struggling Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost. Murphy was to remain at the college for thirteen years in the role of rector or president (the use of one title over the other was fairly contentious at the time).
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chapel was constructed in brick to match the adjoining the
Administration Building; it was begun in 1893, but not finished until 1904. Murphy personally secured the relics of the martyred saint
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were needed, and established a well-appointed laboratory. Murphy enlarged the
Classics and Commercial departments, and added courses in dramatics, debating, and elocution; the college's first
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Pittsburgh was to conduct a survey of the students at the college. He concluded that more courses in
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at the age of fourteen, where he made a name for himself as a debater and a contributor to the college's literary journal. He also won first prize for Greek and Latin verse.
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