James Brander Matthews Gives Address
Author, scholar, and educator James Brander Matthews 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.
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.
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.
Edwin Sydney Stuart, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907-11, addressed the College as part of its 1908 Commencement exercises.
Mr. Frank Wilson, National Student Secretary of a group of African-American colleges, addressed the combined YMCA and YWCA at their weekly meeting. He spoke about racial prejudice, specifically about its dual-sided nature and its folly.
In his second talk in his 1931 Week of Prayer series "The Application of the Principles of Jesus to Modern Life", Dr. A. Bruce Curry spoke about "the life which attempts to express itself in our social institutions". He encouraged students to live with personality and with an objective in mind.
Dr. Bruce Curry, guest lecturer for the 1931 Week of Prayer, gave his third and final address of the week on the subject of the prevalence of primitive beliefs, superstitions, and "magical interpretations" in Protestant churches in the US.
Dean Hoffman, '02, first recipient of the Class of 1902 Award and editor of the Harrisburg newspapers The Patriot and The Evening News, spoke at the annual banquet for the staff of The Dickinsonian held in the Molly Pitcher Hotel.
Dr. A. Bruce Curry, professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City and guest lecturer for the 1931 Week of Prayer, spoke about modern youth in his first address in a series entitled "The Application of the Principles of Jesus to Modern Life." The topics of this first talk were "the passing of the days of dogmatism", "how students are interested in life", and "youth's kicking over the mid-Victorian traces".
In the last installment of the James Henry Morgan lecture series on Roman Builders of Europe, Dr. Robert S. Conway gave a lecture on Virgil in Bosler Hall.
Dr. Lee Driver, authority on the life and works of poet James Whitcomb Riley, gave a lecture on those subjects to the Belles Lettres Literary Society in the YMCA room of Old West. Dr. Driver worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.
The Mohler Scientific Club, under the guidance of Howard Blair, '31, sponsored a demonstration of a television and a lecture about "this coming development of science" in the Tome Scientific Building.
The YMCA Student-Faculty Conference was held at Dickinson College from December 5 to December 7, 1930.
As part of the James Henry Morgan lecture series on Roman Builders of Europe, Dr. Robert S. Conway gave a lecture on Cicero in Bosler Hall. He focused on Cicero's originality and versatility as an orator.
Dr. Robert S. Conway, classical scholar from the United Kingdom, gave a lecture on Caesar in Bosler Hall as part of the James Henry Morgan Lecture Series on Roman Builders of Europe. Dr. Conway focused on repudiating Theodor Mommsen's well-known account of Caesar and argued that Caesar was in favor of amnesty and political pardon.
Major Herbert Taylor, of the Carlisle Medical Field Service School, spoke to the Mohler Scientific Club about scientific research performed in army medicine.
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.
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.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant United States Attorney General from 1921-29, addressed the College as part of its 1926 Commencement exercises. Mrs. Willebrandt also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
Edgar Fahs Smith, science historian and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911-20, addressed the College as part of its 1925 Commencement exercises. Dr. Smith also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
Edmund Davison Soper (Class of 1898), theologian and professor at Northwestern University, addressed the College as part of its 1924 Commencement exercises.
William Wistar Comfort, President of Haverford College from 1917-40, addressed Dickinson as part of its 1923 Commencement exercises.
Robert von Moschzisker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, addressed the College as part of its 1922 Commencement exercises. Justice von Monschzisker also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College.
George Edward Reed, President of Dickinson from 1889-1911, addressed the College as part of its 1921 Commencement exercises.