Lyman G. Hertzler receives this diploma from Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School, on June 4, 1912.
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June 4, 1912
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
1912-1913
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
May 1, 1913
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and describes an observance of "Nisbet Day" that morning at Dickinson College, explains how Charles Nisbet became the first President of Dickinson, and provides additional information about Charles...
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 11, 1913
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
October 31, 1913
Andrew Carnegie writes to Funk & Wagnalls Company, a publishing company in New York City, thanking them for their gift of their new standard dictionary. "I placed the new Standard Dictionary at my side-a sure refuge in the day of trouble with our exceedingly rich but most irregular language...
Location: I-AsbellY-1976-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
December 19, 1913
Medal of Honor Recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) drafts a letter to President William H. Taft, disagreeing with Taft on the future of the Progressive Party. Includes a photocopy of an earlier letter from Taft to King, in which Taft declines the presidency of City College.
Location: I-HanwayJ-1975-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
1914
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins from the SS Potsdam on his way home from a trip to Europe . "We had very bad weather, the fog lasted for four days steadily with the fog horn signal every sixty seconds," as Blakey notes. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
1914
Jane Perkins writes to Professor Leonard Blakey regarding their last meeting as well as her recent trip. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 4, 1914
This issue of The Conwayan replaced the Logbook as the yearbook for the 1913-1914 academic year 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
June 10, 1914 - April 30, 1915
Esther Popel Shaw, Class of 1919, was the first African American woman to graduate from Dickinson College. This diary from Esther's senior year of high school documents her daily activities, particularly her interactions with family, friends, and neighbors. Esther routinely listed the names of...
Location: MC 2013.4, B1, F1 (Diary) ; MC 2013.4, B1, F3 (Transcript of Diary)
Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Diaries and Journals
Time Period: 1900-1919
November 1914
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1914-1915 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment,...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
1915
Medal of Honor recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes a five-page composition entitled "Reminiscences" in pencil. He discusses his Dickinson College experience and includes notes of planned citations from his journal.
Location: I-GrayM-1953-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1900-1919
1915
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins regarding Dickinson's commencement, the political stir behind selecting Professor James Henry Morgan as President Eugene Allen Noble's successor. "So many petty men are busy having their interests pushed by their little groups of friends," as...
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
1914-1915
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
May 7, 1915
This brochure contains the roster of participants and the order of track and field events for the seventh Southern Illinois Interscholastic athletic contest held in Carbondale, Illinois.
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F14
Subject: Sport and Recreation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 9, 1915
Helen Katherine Williamson receives her Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 9, 1915.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
December 4, 1915
In this newspaper clipping, Hanna Butler, prima donna of the Auditorium Hotel, offers advice for how singers can test their tone using their thumb.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F8
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1900-1919
1915-1916
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
January 2, 1916
This program is for Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski's recital at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1916.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F5
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1900-1919
January 30, 1916
An unknown student at Dickinson College writes to a Mitchell about the winter and getting ready for the fraternity dances that take place in February. The dances "will be quite a large and informal affair" and, as the student tells Mitchell, "I am getting very anxious for it." Transcript...
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
February 4, 1916
Writer and poet William Rose Benét writes to Lawton Mackall, asking him to contribute to a one-off literary magazine called The Chimaera.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 7, 1916
Jay Paul Jameson (Class of 1907) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 7, 1916.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
1917
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1916-1917 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment,...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
1916-1917
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
This yearbook includes a fold-out photograph between pages 76 and 77 of students and faculty outside of Conway Hall, which you can...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 6, 1917
Edgar Rohrer Heckman (Class of 1897) receives this Honorary Doctor of Divinity Diploma from Dickinson College on June 6, 1917.
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Time Period: 1900-1919
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