Entries drawn from the college history timeline
This oratory event was held on Tuesday, September 25, 1827 in the German Lutheran Church. The oration was delivered by Charles F. Mayer, Esq. before the Union Philosophical Society and the Belles Lettres Society.
Anita Newcomb McGee, M.D. gave a lecture on October 13. Presented by the Civic Club, McGee discussed the experience of women in the Japanese army.
Dr. Frank M. Bristol spoke at the Carlisle Opera House on December 6. This lecture, deemed one of the best ever heard in Carlisle, was presented by the Cumberland County Teachers' Institute. Dr. Bristol's lecture was entitled "Brains" and his expertise captivated the audience, holding their...
The Rev. Dr. James Morrow, well-known secretary of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, gave a lecture in Bosler Hall. Presented by the YWCA, the lecture was met by an interested crowd.
Mr. S. M. Sayford gave a series of lectures from February 1-4. As one of the leading YMCA workers in the country, Sayford proved to be a charismatic speaker talented in engaging an audience of college students.
Dr. Charles Rhoads delivered a lecture on February 5 in Chapel Hall and one on February 6 in Bosler Hall, both regarding psychology and memory in education. The second lecture, which was open to the larger community, was especially well-attended.
Reverend John D. Fox, D.D., of State Street M.E. Church in Trenton, NJ, gave a lecture on Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Bosler Hall. Rev. Fox had a distinguished reputation as a lecturer and interpreter of Shakespeare and students and community members gathered to listen to his speech. Fox graduated...
The first lecture in the Civic Club series was held in the Carlisle Opera House by Dr. C.T. Winchester on November 16, 1906. Winchester was from Wesleyan University, where he was an English professor and an author for magazines and books. His lecture was titled “An Old Castle” during which he...
Honor Edward W. Biddle lectured at the school entitled, “Carlisle Old and New” which presented places of interest in the town as they were in “old” Carlisle, and contrasted them to how they looked in 1907. He told an interesting history of the town itself and important events/people involved...
Mrs. Lucretia McAnney, instructor of elocution and director of the Dramatic Club at Dickinson, delivered a lecture to students and Carlisle residents in Bosler Hall. McAnney's lecture was entitled “Shakespeare’s Wonderful World” and discussed how Shakespeare’s work not only reflected his time,...
President George Edward Reed spoke at the annual banquet of the Alumni Association of the Central Pennsylvania Conference in the Odd Fellow's Hall in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. Sixty-two Dickinson alumni were in attendance. Rev. James B. Stein was the toast master for of the evening.
Edwin S. Stuart, Governor of Pennsylvania, addresses the College for the 125th annual William Penn Memorial Day.
Bradford P. Raymond, president of Wesleyan University from 1889-1908, addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.
Edwin Sydney Stuart, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907-11, addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.
Author, scholar, and educator James Brander Matthews addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.
John Franklin Fort, Governor of New Jersey from 1908-11, addressed Dickinson as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises. Governor Fort also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
Marlin Edgar Olmstead, Pennsylvania delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1897-1913, addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.
Dr. Fox of Harrisburg gave students a lecture on the quality of Shakespeare's writing.
Samuel Higgenbottom speaks to students on the topic of missionary work in India.
Consul General Wood addressed students on the topic of his job as United States Ambassador to Abyssinia.
William Edward Myers (class of 1902) delivered a lecture to students about his missionary work in Argentina.
World renowned columnist and humorist Thomas A. Daily was at Dickinson on this date and read verses to the students.
Capt. James Gordon Steese (Class of 1902) spoke to Dickinson students about his time building the Panama Canal as well as explained why the canal was important for the United States and the world.
Dr. Jacob Sargis, a fugitive from the Ottoman Empire, gave a lecture to students on the horrible atrocities being committed by the Ottomans against the Armenian population. Dr. Sargis was an American Methodist missionary. In what would later be known as the Armenian Genocide...
Dr. William Jones of the Army Y.M.C.A. discussed biological evolution as well as the differentiation of the sexes during a lecture. The Dickinsonian, which noted that only men attended Jones' lecture, described it as "a most interesting illustrated lecture."
