Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Dr. William Pearson, Dean of the Hahnemann Medical College, spoke to the Mohler Scientific Club on April 6, 1932. Pearson began his speech by discouraging the study of medicine, then focused on the subject of biochemistry, emphasizing the importance of studying organic chemistry.
The annual Week of Prayer began on April 12, 1932 with a chapel address by Dr. Peter B. Emmons of Scranton on "What Constitutes a Christian". Dr. Emmons argued that a Christian is someone who has accepted Christ as his leader and models his personality after that of Christ.
In his second chapel address of the 1932 Week of Prayer, Dr. Peter B. Emmons argued that "Christ as a personality was the true revelation and expression of God to man".
United States Commissioner of Education William John Cooper addressed the College as part of its 1932 Commencement exercises. Commissioner Cooper also received an honorary degree from the College.
C. Telford Erickson, chief executive of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture, spoke at the Dickinson chapel service on October 11, 1932. He emphasized the horrible living conditions in Albania.
Rev. Irvin W. Underhiel spoke at the chapel service on his Presbyterian missionary work in Africa. He was a native of Toulissa, Africa.
Dr. James N. Rule, Pennsylvania superintendent of education, delivered a chapel address on the life of John Dickinson in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dickinson's birth.
Ralph W. Stone, geologist employed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, addressed a large gathering of the Mohler Scientific Club on the subject of limestone caves in Pennsylvania.
The YMCA sponsored a visit to campus by Charles H. Corbett on December 1, 1932. Corbett spoke on social and economic world problems at the chapel service, in economics classes, in an informal discussion, and at a YMCA meeting.
Mr. C. Spaeth, of the North German Lloyd steamship line, spoke to a combined meeting of the Mohler Scientific Society and the German Club on the subject of the history of shipbuilding and shipping. His address was followed by a film screening.
The YMCA hosted a lecture by Mr. Harry Anslinger, United States Commissioner of Narcotics, on drug addiction (particularly in Egypt), crime related to drugs, and government efforts to crack down on the drug trade. He showed several short films and slides as part of his lecture.
The debate team discussed whether or not all intergovernmental world war debts and reparations should be cancelled before a meeting of the International Relations Club. The debate was held in the YMCA room in Old West.
The Hon. Richard J. Beamish, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and guest of honor at the annual Dickinsonian banquet, spoke at said banquet on his experiences as a journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Beamish condemned the monopolization of newspapers in...
Major Lynn Adams of the Pennsylvania State Police spoke to the YMCA about the crime engendered by Prohibition. He argued that liquor was better controlled by education than by law.
Paul Blanshard, Director of the City Affairs Committee of New York City, spoke in Bosler Hall on the subject, "Must Cities Be Corrupt?" at the invitation of the YMCA. He argued that city government has not kept pace with the progress of city and country life, detailed the corruption of the New...
Paul Blanshard, Director of the City Affairs Committee of New York City, spoke at the March 14 chapel service on the subject "Industrial Planning in the Machine Age". He argued that the theory of supply and demand underlying capitalism had failed, that a National Economic Planning Board should...
Dr. George Kartzke, of the Institute of Foreign Education at the University of Berlin, spoke to the German Club about the aims and accomplishments of the German Youth Movement, using lantern slides to illustrate.
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy spoke at the April 6 chapel service under the auspices of the Belles Lettres Literary Society. She spoke of her father, Leo Tolstoy, and of the secularism and militarism of Soviet Russia.
Author Rollo W. Brown addressed the College as part of its 1933 Commencement exercises.
College presidents and professors from 50 institutions mainly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland gathered in Allison Memorial church to discuss problems related to tuition, student loans, scholarships and deferred payment plans. In addition, participants expressed disapproval of the...
President Robert C. Clothier of Rutgers University speaks at a dinner held as part of the College Sesquicentennial celebration.
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue of New York spoke during chapel as the first in a series of programs arranged by Gilbert Malcolm. This speech was Rabbi Wise's second trip to Dickinson, as he had previously visited during Founder's Day in 1928. Rabbi Wise was born in Hungary and...
Professor Carl Richard Walther Thomas addressed the Belle Lettres Society on the status of Germany. Prof. Thomas claimed that Germany was misunderstood and that a deeper interest in "the Germany problem" will help Americans understand them. In addition, Prof. Thomas expressed doubt over the...
Dr. Carl Doney, president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon spoke to the Young Peoples Fellowship on "Things that Count." In his speech, Dr. Doney claimed that society had lost its ability to balance secondary values with primary values such as "love, truth goodness , aspiration, hope,...
At the annual Dickinsonian dinner to honor retiring staff, E. J. Stackpole, president and editor-in-chief of the Harrisburg Telegraph, delivered the main address. Stackpole's speech focused on incidents that occurred throughout his career as a journalist. Thirty members of the...
