History is full of sweet irony.
I hope I may quickly illustrate my point. The student directories in the University Archives say that when Eduardo Glandt arrived at Penn in 1973, he lived in Grad Towers at 37 th and Chestnut Streets. Only a few months earlier that same year, this magnificent silver urn, the John Henry Towne presentation silver, had departed the Towne Building and moved off campus, where it was placed on long term loan. As a result, the students, faculty, and staff of this School were denied not only its grandeur, but also its inspiration. I remember Professor Glandt visiting the University Archives a few years ago, at the time of the centennial of the Department of Chemical Engineering.