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This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 29, 1865 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 28, 1866 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 27, 1867 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 24, 1869 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 9, 1870 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 27, 1872 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 26, 1873 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1860-1879
The Carlisle Herald describes Dickinson College Professor Charles F. Himes' lecture on the telephone, held the previous week on June 13, 1878, in this report.
Location: MC 2000.1, B22, F4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Events, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1860-1879
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 29, 1882 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1880-1899
Natural Science Professor Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) delivers this address at the opening of the Jacob Tome Scientific Building at Dickinson College on June 24, 1885.
Location: MC 2000.1, B251, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 19, 1890 shows the members of the graduating class and the speeches that they were scheduled to deliver.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1880-1899
Charles Granville Biggs recounts the Quarto-Centennial reunion of the Class of 1870 after commencement in June 1895. "Although we graduated only sixteen members," Biggs notes that "thirteen were present on this auspicious occasion." Biggs explains their shared comradery and describes the events...
Location: I-Original-1895-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
The Dickinson Quarterly, an anonymous satirical single-page broadside, discusses the students' rejection of an honor system favored by the professors. The students propose an Exemption system as an alternative solution. This post also includes a clipping from the November 1, 1895...
Location: I-Original-1895-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1880-1899
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 6, 1900 shows the order of exercises and lists the members of the graduating class from the college.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1880-1899
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 6, 1900 shows the order of exercises and lists the members of the graduating class from the college.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
Robert McAlarney deliverers an address on the history of West College (Old West) at the 100th anniversary of the rebuilding and re-dedication of the building. McAlarney is a 1893 graduate who works at the New York Evening Post. The text of McAlarney's speech as well as a program from...
Location: I-Original-1904-2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919
Professor Emeritus Charles F. Himes (Class of 1855) discusses the history of "the so-called 'Mermaid' that surmounts [Old West's] beautiful belfry as a weather vane."
Location: MC 2000.1, B25, F12
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Edward Wright Byrn delivers this reunion address in 1910 for the Class of 1870. Byrn discusses the importance of reunions at which former students "meet every five years after graduation and renew the old associations of college days." Byrn also describes the events that took place during the...
Location: I-Original-1910-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 8, 1910 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 11, 1913 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
A description of this document is not currently available.
Location: DC 1870 B584m
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 23, 1919 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law. A separate memorial at the end of the program lists those...
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 9, 1925 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 10, 1935 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
