Speeches and Sermons

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Frank E. Masland Jr. papers
Photograph, undated (Photographs, folder 16)
1915-1993

This collection primarily provides evidence of the personal and public life of Frank E. Masland Jr., environmentalist, preservationist, explorer, entrepreneur, author, and community leader.  Also found in this collection is correspondence from prominent twentieth-century figures such as leaders...

Location: MC 2009.4

Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Travel and Tourism

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Essays and Dissertations, Interviews and Oral Histories, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2009.04.pdf

Jacob Simmons Mosher and Samuel L. Southard papers
Certificate, 1823 (Box 1, folder 14)
1809-1956

Jacob Simmons Mosher (1834-1883) was a prominent physician and professor of medicine in Albany, New York. Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842) was a lawyer, politician, and cabinet member from New Jersey. These papers contain correspondence and other materials that reflect the professional and...

Location: MC 2008.5

Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government

Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2008.05.pdf

George Norcross papers
Sermon, 1904 (Box 1, folder 7)
1870-1904

George Norcross (1838-1915) graduated from Monmouth College in 1861 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1864. He served as minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, Pa., from 1869 until 1909. This collection contains seven sermons given by Norcross between 1870 and 1904. Norcross...

Location: MC 2005.6

Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Religion and Spirituality

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2005.06.pdf

Office of the Chaplain Papers
The Church Speaks program, October 1954
1924-1989, bulk 1967-1989

Record group 5/2 consists of both materials dating from 1962-1989 while the Office of the Chaplain existed under the leadership of a full-time chaplain, as well as materials regarding campus religious affairs functions prior to the establishment of the chaplaincy, as early as 1924. The bulk of...

Location: RG 5/2

Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Music, Reports, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999

Collection Inventory: PDF icon RG 5/2 - Office of the Chaplain Papers

Leon Cushing Prince papers
Program, undated (Box 4, folder 9)
1790-1937

Leon Cushing Prince (1878-1937) graduated from Dickinson College in 1898 and received his law degree from the Dickinson School of Law and his masters from New York University. Prince returned to Dickinson in 1907 to become a professor of history, where he would teach for thirty years until his...

Location: MC 1998.7

Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc1998.07.pdf

William Charles Ford Reed papers and books
Copybook, c.1847-1851 (Box 1, folder 7)
1832-1861

The William Charles Ford Reed Collection was donated to the college in 1951 by the sons of William C. F. Reed, Class of 1851. The collection contains some of Reed's student writings, notebooks, and his complete set of school books. A subsequent donation in 1956 consisted of a few papers and 37...

Location: MC 2001.16

Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Maps and Diagrams, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2001.16.pdf

Daniel K. Richter papers
Newsclipping, 2002 (Box 1, folder 33)
1980-2002

Daniel K. Richter taught history and American studies at Dickinson College from 1985 to 1998. This collection includes papers presented by Richter at conferences, as well as book reviews and title pages of scholarly articles written by him. In addition, the collection contains reviews of books...

Location: MC 2012.8

Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Literary Pursuits

Format: Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1980-1999, 2000-2019

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2012.08.pdf

Student Senate Records
Daily Senator - from RG 8-1 7-1-6
1908-2014

These records document the activity and structure of Dickinson's student government.

Location: RG 8/1

Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government

Format: Financial Documents, Meeting Minutes, Newspapers and Magazines, Reports, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019

Collection Inventory: PDF icon RG 8/1 - Student Senate Records

Robert Swift papers
Poster, 1979 (Box 1, folder 13)
1979-c.1990

Robert Swift was a Pennsylvania statehouse reporter during the accident at Three Mile Island. As such, he not only covered the numerous press conferences held to discuss the incident, but also reported from TMI the first night of the accident. The Robert Swift collection consists primarily of...

Location: TMI-Swift

Subject: Politics and Government, Three Mile Island

Format: Legal and Government Documents, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999

Collection Inventory: PDF icon TMI-Swift.pdf

Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA) papers
Newsletter, 1979 (folder 1.4.3.1)
1979-1994

Three Mile Island Alert (TMIA) collection consists of the various papers, government documents, legal documents, transcripts, and publications collected and maintained by Three Mile Island Alert, a not-for-profit citizens' organization dedicated to promotion of safe-energy alternatives to...

Location: TMI-TMIA

Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government, Three Mile Island

Format: Artifacts and Objects, Audio-Visual Materials, Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Interviews and Oral Histories, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Reports, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1960-1979, 1980-1999

Collection Inventory: PDF icon TMI-TMIA.pdf

William Van Bergen Tudor papers
Sermon, undated (Box 1, folder 8)
1880-1938

William Van Bergen Tudor (1832-1916) graduated from Dickinson College in 1850 and earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Centenary College in Louisiana in 1872. He served as a minister in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as in the St. Louis and Virginia...

Location: MC 2005.2

Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality

Format: Essays and Dissertations, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2005.02.pdf

Ferdinand De Wilton Ward family papers
Sermon, 1877 (Box 1, folder 17)
1837-1890

The collection contains papers of Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (1812-1891) concerning the Central Church in Geneseo, New York, the American Bible Society, and the genealogy of the Ward family. Also in the collection are a journal of Ward's voyage to India in 1837 and a letter book of the Indian...

Location: MC 2000.6

Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism

Format: Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Reports, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2000.06.pdf

Eleanor T. Waugh Hanley papers
Biology notes, 1932 (Box 1, folder 2)
1926-1934

Eleanor T. Waugh Hanley (19??-1940) was the daughter of Karl Tinsley Waugh, who served as president of Dickinson College from 1932 to 1933. Hanley enrolled in the Dickinson class of 1935 and participated in numerous campus activities, although she did not graduate from Dickinson. Hanley died...

Location: MC 2005.3

Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1920-1939

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2005.03.pdf

Edwin E. Willoughby papers
The Uses of Bibliography, Lecture II: “The Bibliographer and the Makers of the Book” (typescript), 1953
1928-1965

The Willoughby collection is divided into three series and housed in four document boxes. It is comprised mostly of drafts of literary works, contained in the Literary Productions series, as well as correspondence, mostly relating to his librarian work, and miscellaneous other materials. The...

Location: MC 2011.5

Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Notes and Notebooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2011.05.pdf

John Perry Wood family papers
Ephemera, 1901 (Box 1, folder 71)
1880-c.1950

This collection consists of nine scrapbooks relating to John Perry Wood (1879-1959), Dickinson College class of 1901 and Yale University School of Law class of 1902, and his family. Most of the scrapbooks deal with aspects of family life: correspondence between family members, and memorials to...

Location: MC 2009.3

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism

Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2009.03.pdf

John Zug papers
Speech, 1837 (Box 1, folder 12)
1836-1842

The collection includes correspondence, speeches, essays, notebooks, bills, printed materials, and notes on debates and other such topics as the Light Street Institute and the Washington Temperance Society. The collection spans three main time periods in Zug's life: his enrollment at Dickinson...

Location: MC 2000.10

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy

Format: Books and Pamphlets, Certificates and Diplomas, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Notes and Notebooks, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859

Collection Inventory: PDF icon mc2000.10.pdf

Prayer Written by Charles Nisbet
Prayer Written by Charles Nisbet
April 18, 1759

Charles Nisbet writes this prayer, expressing contrition and hope, while in Edinburgh, Scotland. Transcript included.

Location: I-McIntoshM-1965-4

Subject: Religion and Spirituality

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: Before 1760

Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
May 13, 1787

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to students after a "late recess & intermission" on May 13, 1787. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

"An Address to the First Graduates of Dickinson College," by Charles Nisbet
"An Address to the First Graduates of Dickinson College," by Charles Nisbet
September 26, 1787

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to the first graduating class of Dickinson College at commencement on September 26, 1787. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Valedictory Address from the First Commencement by Robert Duncan
Valedictory Address from the First Commencement by Robert Duncan
September 26, 1787

Robert Duncan (Class of 1787) delivers this valedictory address at the first commencement of Dickinson College, which was held on September 26, 1787. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
October 1787

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to students in October after "a short interval of vacation." John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Address from the Second Commencement by Charles Nisbet
Address from the Second Commencement by Charles Nisbet
May 7, 1788

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to the second graduating class of Dickinson College at commencement on May 7, 1788. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
Address after a Vacation by Charles Nisbet
June 19, 1788

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to students after a vacation on June 19, 1788. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Address from the Third Commencement by Charles Nisbet
Address from the Third Commencement by Charles Nisbet
June 2, 1789

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to the third graduating class of Dickinson College at commencement on June 2, 1789. John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

Address after a "Short Vacation" by Charles Nisbet
Address after a “Short Vacation” by Charles Nisbet
November 2, 1789

President Charles Nisbet delivers this address to students on May 13, 1787 after a "short vacation." John Young, a member of the Class of 1788, transcribed the address. Transcript included.

Location: SC Vault Nisbet 37

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1780-1799

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