Commencement exercises for the 1847-48 academic year are held, with all members of the graduating class delivering orations.
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Thu., Jul. 13, 1848
Henry Louis Baugher (Class of 1826), clergyman and President of Gettysburg College from 1850-68, receives an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree as part of Dickinson's 1848 commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 12, 1849
Commencement exercises for the 1848-49 academic year are held, with all members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 11, 1850
Commencement exercises for the 1849-50 academic year are held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jun. 26, 1851
Commencement exercises for the 1850-51 academic year were held, with all members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jun. 26, 1851
Charles Collins, President of Dickinson College from 1852-1860, receives an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree as part of Dickinson's 1851 commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 8, 1852
Commencement exercises for the 1851-52 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 8, 1852
John Purdue Gray (Class of 1846), psychiatrist and editor of The American Journal of Insanity, later renamed The American Journal of Psychiatry, receives an honorary Master of Arts degree as part of Dickinson's 1852 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 8, 1852
Samuel Dickinson Hillman (Class of 1850), educator and interim President of Dickinson College for five months in 1868, receives an honorary Master of Arts degree as part of Dickinson's 1852 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 14, 1853
Commencement exercises for the 1852-53 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 13, 1854
Commencement exercises for the 1853-54 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Sep. 14, 1854
College exercises for the 1854-1855 academic year commenced.
Thu., Jul. 12, 1855
Commencement exercises for the 1854-55 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 12, 1855
William Darlington, botanist and Pennsylvania Congressman from 1819-23, received an honorary Doctor of Political Science degree as part of Dickinson's 1855 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 10, 1856
Commencement exercises for the 1855-56 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 10, 1856
Minister and abolitionist Jonathan Townley Crane received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree as part of Dickinson's 1856 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 10, 1856
Spencer Fullerton Baird (Class of 1840), naturalist, curator, Dickinson College professor from 1845-1850, and partial namesake of Baird-McClintock Hall, received an honorary Doctor of Political Science degree as part of the College's 1856 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 9, 1857
Commencement exercises for the 1856-57 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 9, 1857
George Richard Crooks (Class of 1840), writer, educator, and Methodist minister, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, his first of two honorary degrees from Dickinson, as part of the College's 1857 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 8, 1858
Commencement exercises for the 1857-58 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 8, 1858
Physician and Methodist missionary Isaac William Wiley receives an honorary Master of Arts degree as part of Dickinson's 1858 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 14, 1859
Commencement exercises for the 1858-59 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 14, 1859
John McClintock, Methodist minister, Dickinson College trustee from 1849-59, and partial namesake of Baird-McClintock Hall, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree as part of the College's 1859 Commencement exercises.
Thu., Jul. 12, 1860
Commencement exercises for the 1859-60 academic year were held, with various members of the graduating class delivering orations.
Thu., Jul. 12, 1860
Henry Slicer, three-time Chaplain to the United States Senate, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree as part of Dickinson's 1860 Commencement exercises.
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