Dickinson Alumnus, February 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees invited alumni to attend Dr. Mervin Grant Filler's (class of 1893) inauguration as the eighteenth president in April 1929.
  • The Alumni Gymnasium opened in early January with a basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania.
  • An infirmary, consisting of four rooms, opened in the rear of Conway Hall. 
  • Administrative offices, including the president's office, moved to the second floor of Old West.
  • P. W. "Red" Griffith was appointed head football coach.
  • James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) was featured in a Spanish language publication, The International Journal of Road Building.
  • William D. Angle (class of 1930) won the 1902 Award, honoring him for being the "best all around Dickinsonian" by judgement of his classmates.
  • Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, delivered a speech on former Smithsonian Secretary and former Dickinson Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird (class of 1840).
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1927

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees authorized razing South College in order to make way for the construction of the new gymnasium. 
  • Trustee Lemuel T. Appold (class of 1882) retired as President of the General Alumni Association. 
  • Mary Curran Morgan (class of 1888), President James Henry Morgan's wife, passed away unexpectedly while traveling.
  • The Carnegie Corporation of New York donated a valuable art collection to the college.
  • Dr. Virgil Prettyman (class of 1892), a businessman and former headmaster of the Horace Mann School, featured in an article that highlights his achievements.
  • Professor Leon C. Prince (class of 1898) reviewed The English of the Pulpit, a "notable" book by Lewis H. Chrisman (class of 1908).
  • Rev. Raymond R. Brewer (class of 1916), the head of the Dickinson-in-China program, discussed how China views the United States.
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