These records document the activity and structure of Dickinson's student government.
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Dickinson College Student Life
Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
1908-2014
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: 
RG 8/1 - Student Senate Records
1860-2003
Ruth Agnes Trout graduated from Dickinson College with the class of 1936. In 1983, she and her sister, Helen Elizabeth Trout, established the Trout Gallery at the college in honor of their parents, Brook and Mary Agnes Cook Trout. This collection of papers documents Trout's relationship with the...
Location: MC 2005.1
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Travel and Tourism
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Certificates and Diplomas, Diaries and Journals, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: mc2005.01.pdf
1895-1941
Thomas W. Troxell (1874-1947) graduated from Dickinson College in 1898. He taught at schools in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia before finishing his career as principal at Gaithersburg High School in Maryland. This small collection contains materials related to Troxell’s...
Location: MC 2012.7
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2012.07.pdf
1914-1985
Paul Walker (1896-1985) was a 1921 graduate of Dickinson College and a longtime contributing editor and columnist with the Harrisburg Patriot-News; his column "Roundabout" appeared for over ten years. This collection is comprised of diaries, commonplace books, newspaper articles and...
Location: MC 2003.10
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation
Format: Diaries and Journals, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
Time Period: 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2003.10.pdf
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: mc2005.03.pdf
1924-1934
Emma Catherine Wentzel graduated from Dickinson College in 1934. This collection contains correspondence received during her high school and college years.
Location: MC 2007.1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc2007.01.pdf
1962-1963
Barbara Stevens Wishmeyer served as Dean of Women at Dickinson College from 1959-1967. She created this scrapbook that documents the lives of the first-year female students living in Metzger Hall during the 1962-1963 academic year. That was the last year...
Location: SB 2013.7
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: sb2013.07.pdf
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
Collection Inventory: mc2009.03.pdf
1983-2008
These records document the activity and organization of the Zatae Longsdorff's Women's Center, a feminist organization at Dickinson that included student and faculty members.
Collection Inventory: RG 9/8 - Women's Center records
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
Collection Inventory: mc2000.10.pdf
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
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
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
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
1788-1789
Volume 3 of an unpublished manuscript transcription of 200 lectures on moral philosophy delivered by President Charles Nisbet at Dickinson College Dec. 1, 1788 to May 13, 1789, transcribed by student Samuel S. Mahon, class of 1789. (v. 1. Moral philosophy -- v. 2. Of moral laws -- v. 3. Of...
Location: SC-Vault Nisbet 5, v.3
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits
Format: Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1780-1799
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
January 18, 1791
John Young writes William Young, a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia, to express his intentions to withdraw his subscription for The Universal Asylum, and Columbian Magazine. "As Doctor [Charles Nisbet's] Course of Lectures is to close in about ten days," John explains that he will...
Location: MC 2001.5, B1, F13
Subject: Business and Industry, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
1792?
James Martin, a college student during the fall of 1792, records verbatim a series of 65 lectures on literary criticism as delivered by Charles Nisbet, President of Dickinson College.
Manuscript of 25 lectures on languages (beginning Aug. 16, [1792?], p. 1-127) and 65 lectures on...
Location: SC-Vault Nisbet 18
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Literary Pursuits
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1780-1799
February 6, 1792
Dickinson College President Charles Nisbet writes to Michael Taney in which he discusses the importance of parental guidance in education and praises the conduct of his son, Roger Brooke Taney. Roger Taney is a member of the class of 1795. Transcript included.
Location: RG 5/1 - 6.1.1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
August 27, 1817
Cyrus W. Trimble writes to his brother, John A. Trimble about his daily schedule at Dickinson and the two different literary societies at Dickinson, the Union Philosophical Society and the Belles Lettres Society. Cyrus, who is a member of UPS, explains that "you can’t conceive the emulation that...
Location: I-DavidsonR-1975-2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
September 2, 1822
Richard M. Crain writes James Hamilton Jr. to introduce Joseph Crain, a prospective student to Dickinson College. "If you can make it convenient to yourself," Crain asks Hamilton "to give him the necessary introduction to the Professors." Transcript included.
Location: I-ValeM-1947-20
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
1829-1830
The first portion of Hiester Muhlenberg's notebook while a student at Dickinson College consists of synopses of each book in Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian War."
Hiester Muhlenberg's notebook consists of synopses of each book in Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian...
Location: I-HarrisonB-1959-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine
Format: Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1820-1839
February 15, 1836
Dickinson College President John P. Durbin sends Rev. John Rhodes a report on the conduct of Joseph Clubine Rhodes (Class of 1838). The report lists the number of times that Joseph has been absent from his literary exercises, prayers, and public worship. Durbin also adds a note about a bill for...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-8
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1820-1839
July 18, 1838
The Statutes of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding the administration of the college, faculty, stewards, admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary societies, and student...
Location: RG 1/2 10.1.10
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1820-1839
November 25, 1839
Former President and Representative John Quincy Adams writes to members of a committee of Union Philosophical Society (UPS) members and declines an invitation to deliver an address before a joint meeting of the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society at Dickinson College. The members of...
Location: I-Friends-2008-3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
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