This post features a short video as Dean of Women and English Professor Josephine Brunyate Meredith talks to female students in front of Metzger Hall, a women's dormitory located on North Hanover Street. Dean Meredith, a member of the Class of 1901, was the first Dean of Women and the first woman to be a full professor at Dickinson College.
This post features a video clip of several female students walking out of Metzger Hall. Metzger Hall, a women's dormitory, was located on North Hanover Street.
This post features clips of the construction of Drayer Hall and the Sadler Curtilage at Dickinson Law School in 1952. Drayer Hall, which opened in 1952, was the first dormitory built at Dickinson College exclusively for women. The Baird Biology Building, which is on Morgan Field, is also visible in a short clip at around the 1:20 mark in this video.
View as members from the Thirty-Second College Training (Air Crew) Detachment hold an event on the academic quad in 1943 during World War II. This clip also includes footage of the soldiers marching out of the academic quad and onto West High Street in Carlisle, heading towards downtown.
This post features video clips relating to the construction of the Phi Delta Theta House, now known as the Stuart House, which is located on N. West Street across from East College. It includes a groundbreaking ceremony on May 1, 1931 that features Professor William Weidman Landis (Class of 1891), a member of the fraternity as a student, Dean Hoffman (Class of 1902), J. Freed Martin (Class of 1912), and George B. Elliott (Class of 1931).
This post features video clips from Dickinson College's 1929 Commencement Weekend, including the Alumni parade on West High Street, academic processions for Baccalaureate and Commencement, as well as clips from the first Commencement held inside the Alumni Gymnasium on June 10, 1929 .
This video includes clips of various campus building exteriors at Dickinson College, as well as the interior of Allison United Methodist Church (now Allison Hall) and the college bookstore.
The Dickinson Alumnus magazine produced this film, which includes footage of Fred Pierce Corson's presidential inauguration on May 4, 1935, the 1935 Commencement on June 10, a football game against Gettysburg in fall 1934, different views of campus, the Law School's Trickett Hall, a snowball fight in front of Denny Hall, as well as a train going through snow on West High Street.
This video includes clips from Dickinson's Homecoming Weekend on November 8, 1958. The first part features footage of Homecoming Queen Joan Spire receiving her honors from Bill Smith, Interfraternity Council President, on Biddle Field. The second part includes clips of various floats and school spirit displays on fraternity houses.
This post features videos of the 1928 commencement weekend, including the Alumni parade, the Class of 1928's procession, and shots of the exterior and interior of the Alumni Gymnasium, which was in the process of being built. Some of the clips in this video, such as those showing the location of the new gym, were filmed before June 1928. Commencement is held at Bosler Hall on June 4, 1928.
This video includes clips of a football game between Dickinson College and Allegheny College on October 20, 1934. This game, which Dickinson wins 21-0, is held at Dickinson's Biddle field. It also features a short clip of a parade, possibly during halftime, of a band and students.