Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
Thompson Prettyman Ege writes to his father, Oliver Ege, with updates on his life as a student and interactions with people in Carlisle. While "we will commence to review for [end of term] examination" in less than a month, Thompson assures his father that "I am very well and I am trying to get...
Location: I-StokesM-1964-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
James Buchanan writes to journalist and lawyer Edward McPherson regarding a list of members of the Lancaster County Bar that McPherson had compiled. Buchanan points out that the list mistakenly dates his admission to the Bar to 1809, when he was still a student at Dickinson College. "According...
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Charles Collins records his thoughts and activities during the early years of his tenure as president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. After his "first sermon in Carlisle," Collins notes how he "was somewhat embarrassed." "I could not for a while banish the thought that I was...
Location: MC 2003.6, B2, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
The Laws and Regulations 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,...
Location: RG 1/2 10.1.12
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1840-1859
Tiphen Walsingham Allen, from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, records his thoughts and activities from November 1853 to August 1854 as a student at Dickinson College. Allen is a member of the Class of 1854. Transcript included.
Location: I-Friends-2003-6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during his first semester as a student at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Charles Collins records his thoughts and activities during his latter years as president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then as the head of State Female College in Memphis, Tennessee. Collins's entries also include detailed notes for his sermons as well as copies of letters...
Location: MC 2003.6, B2, F2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his first year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
John Gilmore, class of 1856, writes to his sister and discusses his life as a student at Dickinson College. Gilmore discusses the recent weather, his fellow students especially the women who he says "are very fine looking rather handsome, intelligent and interesting, rather aristocratic." In...
Location: I-Original-1855-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his second year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his second year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Albert Slape writes to James Munroe with news of the dismissal of four students on the charge of tarring Professor Henry Otis Tiffany's blackboard. Slape mentions that the dismissal of the students resulted in a "rebellion of the students." Slape is a member of the Class of 1858 while Munroe is...
Location: I-CowdreyM-1955-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
John Calhoun Gilmore writes to "Lib" prior to the Dickinson College Commencement exercises about his class rank in the Class of 1856. Gilmore lists the full ranking of the class of 1856 in his letter. "You will see that my standing is high - I am the first one next to the honor men," as Gilmore...
Location: I-Original-1856-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his third year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his third year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Thomas Griffith, a member of the Class of 1858, writes to his sister about his semester at Dickinson College. Griffith writes about some of his friends, health, as well as his studies. Griffith also tells his sister about his plans for the remainder of the semester, including his decision to...
Location: MC 2005.4, B1, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the fall of his senior year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Horatio Collins King's diary during the spring of his senior year at Dickinson College. King is a member of the class of 1858. Transcript included.
Location: MC 1999.9, B2, F6
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1840-1859
Charles F. Thomas' diary includes intermittent entries dating from leaving Dickinson College in July 1859, to attending at Garrett Bible Institute in Evanston, Illinois, and to working as a Methodist circuit rider in Pennsylvania as the Civil War begins. In March 1860, Thomas saw Abraham Lincoln...
Location: I-Friends-1983-17
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Diaries and Journals
Charles C. Carter writes to his mother about his life in Carlisle. While "Carlisle is not as big as our town," Carter explains that "it is a great deal prettier" than Decatur, Illinois. Carter also describes Dickinson College's campus. "The college is a very pretty place [and] the grounds are...
Location: I-Original-1865-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Joe Belford (Class of 1871) writes to George, his friend from Dickinson College, about life as a student in Carlisle as well as a local fair. "There is a fair going on in town now," and as Belford notes, "I wish you were here and could go there a night or two. " Transcript included.
Location: I-CohenB-1973-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Samuel Miller (Class of 1874) writes to his brother, David Miller, about his room and his class schedule at Dickinson. While his "first impressions of life at Coll. were anything but pleasant," Miller explains that after some cleaning it now "begins to look as if civilized people tenanted the...
Location: I-MillerE-1984-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
William C. Wilson prepared this oration, entitled “College Life Its Lights and Shadows," for the commencement ceremonies held June 26, 1873. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1873-W754c
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1860-1879
S. Homer Dosh writes to his mother, Mrs. J. H. C. Dosh, about life in Carlisle as a student at Dickinson College. He comments on the Presbyterian church, saying that the ministers are boring and that there "is not fire enough in the meetings." In addition, Dosh expresses an interest in possibly...
Location: I-BaconJ-1961-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Dickinson College President James McCauley writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson. Dosh is an excellent student and is a "young man of excellent character – is a professing Christian, and has, during his stay with...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
