Welcome to the new website of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania! This website represents a comprehensive upgrade from our old MediaWiki platform to spanking-new WordPress 3.0. Bringing together the Society’s blog and more informative sites, removing extraneous content, and enriching our historical pages, this website is the heart of a new publicity infrastructure for Philo that will be fully launched in the coming fall semester.
In the meantime, please take a look around Philo’s new home on the internet. We have uploaded descriptions of past events to flesh out the new blog categories, not to mention some fabulous historical tidbits. If you have any concerns or questions concerning website content, please let me know!
My sincere thanks, and the thanks of the Society, go to Mr. Miller (Recorder), Ms. Kern (First Censor), Mr. Robert Hass (Technojoy), Ms. Savoy-Knitter, and Mr. Kincaid for working immensely hard to bring this website to fruition. Especial thanks are due to Ms. Yilu Zhang, who while not being a member of the Society nonetheless spent a huge amount of her free time helping us with the design of the new website.
Sic itur ad astra,
Alec Webley
Moderator of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania
Come to the First Meeting of the 519th Session of the Philomathean Society! As well as introducing guests and prospective members to the Society, the Society will be serenaded by a Literary Exercise delivered by Mr. Barry Slaff on the subject of Paul the Octopus and Probabilities. Cephalopods and lovers of abstract Mathematics would be well advised to attend!


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