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S. Homer Dosh writes his thesis, titled "Some Experiments in Taking Transparencies," about developing photographs while a student at Dickinson College. While using a piece of ground glass behind the negative film is the most satisfactory method, Dosh admits that the method is "inconvenient, and...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-2
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Science and Technology
Format: Essays and Dissertations, Photographs
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Joshua Lippincott writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson, for a program at that institution. "[Dosh] has proved himself both industrious and successful" at Dickinson, as Lippincott explains. Transcript...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles F. Himes writes Daniel Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, in order to recommend S. Homer Dosh, a senior at Dickinson, for a program at that institution. Himes discusses Dosh's thesis, "Some Experiments in Taking Transparencies," and assures Gilman that the thesis is...
Location: I-BaconJ-2001-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary societies, and student records.
Location: RG 1/2 10.1.13
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1860-1879
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from around 1890.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
Time Period: 1880-1899
The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding the administration of the college, faculty, admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary...
Location: RG 1/3 10.1.3
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1880-1899
Professor Charles F. Himes' photograph album from 1893.
Location: MC 2000.1, B26, F2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Photographs
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
The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding the administration of the college, faculty, admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary...
Location: RG 1/3 10.1.4
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1880-1899
Judson T. Strickler prepared this oration, entitled “Some Views of College Life," for the commencement ceremonies held June 10, 1896. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1896-S917s
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1880-1899
Horatio Collins King, a member of the Class of 1858, edited this collection of songs related to Dickinson College.
Location: DC 784.622 D553s
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding the administration of the college, faculty, admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary...
Location: RG 1/3 10.1.5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Josephine Brunyate (Class of 1901) presents this scrapbook to Jessie C. Bowers upon her graduation from Dickinson College in 1903. The scrapbook consists mostly of photographs of campus buildings and students as well as a few Commencement programs. Meredith later returns to work at Dickinson as...
Location: MC 2016.2, B6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Format: Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1900-1919
Thomas L. Jones prepared this oration, entitled “Secret Societies in American Colleges," for the commencement ceremonies held June 5, 1901. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Location: Orations-1901-J793s
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1900-1919
Florence Hensel Bursk writes this essay, entitled "Dickinson's New Era," as a student at Dickinson. Bursk is a member of the Class of 1905. Transcript included.
Location: Essays-General-1905-B972d
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Extracts from the Laws and Regulations of Dickinson College lists important information and guidelines regarding the administration of the college, faculty, admissions, instruction, student behavior, the academic calendar, commencement, religious duties, student bills, literary...
Location: RG 1/3 10.1.6
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
Richard Gassaway Chaney, a member of the Class of 1849, uses these notes to write "Reminiscences of Dickinson College" for the New York Christian Advocate. Chaney uses his school diary as his primary source. Transcript included.
Location: I-Christian-1960-1
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School. This issue includes a tribute to Moncure D. Conway (class of 1849) on his death.
This yearbook includes a fold-out photograph of the academic quad between pages 50 and 51, which you can ...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
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
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
