Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Forrest Eugene "Cap" Craver (Class of 1899), professor and Dickinson's first alumnus football coach, received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1947 Commencement exercises.
Marine geologist Joshua Irving Tracey (Class of 1906) received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1947 Commencement exercises.
Methodist minister Walter Linwood Crowding (Class of 1925) received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1947 Commencement exercises.
A three day Convocation was held in honor of the 175th Anniversary of the founding of Dickinson College. Important members of society, such as two Pennsylvania senators, Thomas Campbell Clark, Attorney General of the United States, former governor of Pennsylvania Arthur H. James, and Pulitzer...
The Baccalaureate Service for the 1947-1948 academic year was held at 10:30am during commencement weekend on Sunday, June 6 in the Allison Methodist Church.
Commencement exercises for the 1947-48 academic year were held at the Alumni Gymnasium.
C. Scott Althouse, inventor, entrepreneur, and namesake of Althouse Science Hall, received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1948 Commencement exercises.
Frederick Moore Vinson, politician, Secretary of the Treasury under President Harry S. Truman from 1945-46, and the Chief Justice of the United States from 1946-53, received an honorary degree as part of the College's 1948 Commencement exercises.
Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick addressed the College as part of its 1948 Commencement exercises. Rev. Fosdick also received an honorary degree from the College.
A special Convocation ceremony was held in Bosler Hall at 11:30 am. Both students and honorary recipients received their degrees.
Distinguished alumni John Wesely Lord and Whitfield Jenks Bell Jr. spoke in the Founder's Day convocation ceremony. Honorary degrees were presented.
The Baccalaureate Service for the 1948-1949 academic year was held at 10:30am during commencement weekend on Sunday, June 5 in the Alumni Gymnasium.
Commencement exercises for the 1948-49 academic year were held at the Alumni Gymnasium.
John Wesley Snyder, businessman and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Harry S. Truman from 1946-53, addressed the College as part of its 1949 Commencement exercises. Mr. Snyder also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
At this special convocation in honor of Founders Day, notable speakers included the Honorable Dorothy Kenyon, social rights advocate.
The Baccalaureate Service for the 1949-1950 academic year was held at 10:30am during commencement weekend on Sunday, June 4 in the Alumni Gymnasium. Honorary degree recipient Captain Francis Lee Albert gave the Baccalaureate sermon.
Commencement exercises for the 1949-50 academic year were held at the Alumni Gymnasium.
Boyd Lee Spahr (Class of 1900), acting president of Dickinson from 1945-46 and namesake of the Boyd Lee Spahr Library (later the Waidner-Spahr Library), received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree as part of the College's 1950 Commencement exercises.
Author and biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree as part of the College's 1950 Commencement exercises.
Garfield Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Episcopal bishop and president of DePauw University from 1928-36, addressed the College as part of its 1950 Commencement exercises. Bishop Oxnam also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
Sebastian Spering Kresge, businessman and founder of what would become the Kmart Corporation, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree as part of the College's 1950 Commencement exercises.
A. Victor Murray, President of Cheshunt College, Oxford, delivered an address titled "The Redemption of Science" as part of a special convocation ceremony at Dickinson in which Murray also received an honorary doctorate of sacred theology.
A. Victor Murray, President of Cheshunt College, Cambridge, was awarded an honorary doctorate of sacred theology as part of a special convocation ceremony. At the ceremony he gave an address titled "The Redemption of Science".
A Special Convocation ceremony was held in Bosler Hall at 11:30 am featuring an address by A. Victor Murray, President of Cheshunt College, Oxford, who was then awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology.
In this special convocation, Whitfield Jenks Bell, a pioneer of early American science and medicine, and Clarence Cook Little, medical researcher, spoke.
