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| | TIME.com: Philadelphia Junto -- Oct. 20, 1941 -- Page 1 |
 | | Two thousand Philadelphians trooped into the Academy of Music for the new Junto's first meeting, and at week's end fresh hordes were still coming. |
 | | When Franklin started the Junto (council), a mutual self-improvement society, among his "ingenious acquaintances," he was a stripling of 21, and his fellow members (a joiner, a surveyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar, a "young gentleman of some fortune") were not much older. |
 | | It started the Union Fire Company (Philadelphia's first volunteer fire department), the Library Company of Philadelphia (now the oldest circulating library in the U.S.), is said to have inspired the founding of the University of Pennsylvania, and when it died was apotheosized as the American Philosophical Society, oldest of the great U.S. scientific societies. |
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