Dickinson Alumnus, December 1936

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Mrs. Paul Appenzellar (class of 1895) agreed to pay for alterations to the front of the President's House. 
  • Dickinson purchased five new properties to enlarge Biddle Field. 
  • The Board of Trustees approved plans to renovate the Mooreland House and rename it as the Baird Biology Building. 
  • Robert F. Rich (class of 1907) was elected to the House of Representatives. 
  • The Athletic Board of Control decided to withdraw Dickinson from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference at the end of the football season.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1938

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • After 29 years on the bench, Hammond Urner (class of 1890) retired as head of the Sixth Judaical Circuit of Maryland. 
  • Trustee S. Walter Stauffer (class of 1912) and George H. Hummel, a trustee at Gettysburg College, donated a trophy that would be awarded to the winner of the annual Dickinson-Gettysburg football game. 
  • Dickinson held the 30th anniversary Doll Show.
  • Princeton University Professor Alpheus Thomas Mason (class of 1920) published a new book, The Brandeis Way: A Case Study in the Workings of Democracy. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1938

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Fund raised over $7500 for the College.
  • English Professor Bradford Oliver McIntire, who taught at Dickinson from 1890 to 1929, died at age 81. 
  • Dr. Ralph Pemberton donated a portrait of Thomas Williams (class of 1825) and wrote about him in "A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Williams."
  • Eva B. Armstrong, a curator at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed Professor Thomas Cooper's life in "A Word Picture of Professor Thomas Cooper." The College received a portrait of Professor Cooper earlier in the year.
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1937

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumnus reprinted President Fred P. Corson's (class of 1917) report to the Board of Trustees entitled "A Philosophy for the Liberal Arts Colleges."
  • A crowd of 6,000 watched Dickinson's football team defeat Gettysburg College, which marked the team's first undefeated season in 20 years. 
  • Thomas J. Towers (class of 1904) was elected a justice of the City Court of New York.
  • Howard E. Moses (class of 1898) was appointed chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
  • A Dickinson student's diary entries during the 1849-1850 academic year revealed student life in the period before the Civil War.
  • Dean Ernest A. Vuilleumier invented a vapor pressure apparatus to measure the vapor pressure of volatile liquids.
  • Christian Gauss, Dean of Princeton University, delivered an address to Dickinson's Phi Beta Kappa chapater entitled "The Standard of Living of The Education Man."
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1937

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Baird Biology Building, which was named for Spencer Fullerton Baird (class of 1840), opened after a dedication ceremony.
  • Professor William D. Gould, Dean of Wesleyan College, joined the faculty as an associate professor of history and political science.
  • Rev. James Lester Lester Shipley (class of 1860) died at age 99, which made Dr. Charles William Super (class of 1866) the oldest living alumnus.
  • Charles W. Brown (class of 1937) wrote a short history of Mooreland Park, which Dickinson had recently purchased and the location of the new Baird Biology Building.
  • Dickinson purchased five lots in order to enlarge and improve the facilities at Biddle field.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1935

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) opened the new school year with an address entitled "College an Aptitude Test for Life." 
  • Marjorie L. McIntire (class of 1910) became the first woman elected to the Alumni Council. 
  • General James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) described a recent trip in "Four Thousand Miles Across Africa."
  • The Alumnus published Paul Appenzellar's (class of 1895) address at his 40th reunion after "unusual demand for copies of the speech."
  • Roy N. Keiser (class of 1906) and J. J. Bunting (class of 1908) became district superintendents of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and Wilmington, respectively.
  • Charles L. Swift (class of 1904), a former dean of Conway Hall, became member of the College faculty. 
  • Reviewers praised Dr. Edwin Elliot Willoughby's (class of 1922) new book, A Printer of Shakespeare: The Books and Times of William Jaggard.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1933

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Plans for the Sesqui-Centennial Commencement in June included a ball, pageant, and an Alumni luncheon on the new Mooreland tract.
  • Alumni formed new clubs in Boston and Reading.
  • The Alumni Council helped organize the first vocational conference held at Dickinson. 
  • Trustee J. Horace McFarland praised James Henry Morgan's (class of 1878) forthcoming book on the history of Dickinson College. 
  • R. Y. Stuart (class of 1903), Chief Forester of the US Forest Service, described the impact of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's unemployment relief bill in "That 250,000" Man Job." 
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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1932

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dickinson purchased the Mooreland Tract for $50,000, which expanded the campus.
  • The Alumni Council recommended creating a fund to solicit annual donations. 
  • Members of the soccer team received varsity letters for the first time.
  • Wilbur L. Adams (class of 1905) was elected to the House of Representatives. 
  • William D. Thomas (class of 1912), president of Sandvik Steel, Inc., became a Knight of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of his work with the American Association of Fine Steel Importers.
  • Edmund S. Snyder (class of 1929) wrote "A Glimpse of John Dickinson" for the Alumnus.
  • Former Professor Morris W. Prince died at the age of 89.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1930

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • A group of alumni donated a portrait of James Wilson, one of Dickinson's founders.
  • Professor Leon C. Prince sustained serious injury after a severe car crash on the way back from the Dickinson Club of Washington.
  • Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) was appointed superintendent of the Brooklyn South District of the Methodist Episcopal church.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) asked alumni to send in Dickinsoniana for display in the new museum located in Old West.
  • Brigadier General Frank R. Keefer (class of 1885), who served as an assistant Surgeon during the Spanish-American War, described "an act of valor he performed" during the conflict.
  • Professor John F. Mohler (class of 1887), head of the Physics department for 34 years, died at the age of 65.
  • Former President George Edward Reed died at the age of 83. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, November 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Alumni were invited to donate any of their Dickinson material for display in new museum located in Old West.
  • The Alumnus published photographs of the renovated Executive offices in Old West
  • The varsity football team suffered one of its worst seasons, with a total of two wins, two ties, and seven losses.
  • The college purchased land located next to Biddle field, which allowed for "the enlargement of the athletic field at any time." Seven tennis courts were also built behind the new Alumni Gymnasium.
  • Pennsylvania Governor John Fisher appointed History Professor Leon C. Prince, also a State Senator, to represent the state at the National Council of State Legislatures.
  • Dr. Paul R. Burkholder (class of 1924) started a two year cruise around the world with other scientists to study the food pollution in fish production.
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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The College revealed plans for extensive improvements, including remodeling Old West, Denny Hall, Biddle Field, and furnishing Conway Hall. 
  • The Board of Trustees recognized former President James H. Morgan (class of 1878) and Professor Bradford O. McIntire for their years of service to the school. Trustees established a Morgan Lectureship Fund and appointed McIntire as Professor Emeritus, the fist in Dickinson's history.
  • Charles K. Zug (class of 1880), a former member of the Alumni Council and Board of Trustees, died in his home.
  • Brothers from the Class of 1870, Philip L. Cannon and trustee Henry P. Cannon, died within two months of each other.
  • Roscoe O. Bonisteel (class of 1912) was elected to the office of most worshipful grand master of the grand lodge of Masons of Michigan.
  • The Alumnus published photographs from the Alumni Parade held in June 1929. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1926

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President of the General Alumni Association, Lemuel Towers (class of 1882), asked Alumni to pledge money for the construction of a new gymnasium. 
  • George W. Pedlow (class of 1901) led a costume parade on Alumni Day dressed as a Roman gladiator in a horse-drawn cart.
  • The Board of Trustees increased professors' salaries and student charges. 
  • The Dickinsonian's poll found that an overwhelming majority of the student body was in favor of Prohibition.
  • The Class of 1906 presented the Gateway located at the corner of West High and North College streets.
  • Former President George Edward Reed published "The Faculty From 1889 to 1911," the seventh in a series entitled "Reminiscences of Dickinson."
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1926

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Former President George Edward Reed published "Enlargement, Construction and Reconstruction," the fifth in a series entitled "Reminiscences of Dickinson."
  • Three new faculty were hired: B. Floyd Rinker to the History Department, Mulford Stough (class of 1924) to the Physics and Chemistry Department, and Horace Elton Rogers (class of 1924) to the English Department.
  • Herbert G. Cochran (class of 1908) was appointed Judge of the Juvenile Court of Norfolk, Virginia. 
  • Walter G. Souders (class of 1898) became head of the The President, an apartment hotel under construction in Atlantic City and worth $5 million.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1924

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Dickinson Relay Team won the Middle Atlantic State Association Championship. 
  • Members of the General Alumni Association nominated ten individuals to serve as officers on the Alumni Council. 
  • The Alumnus published Helen Hall Bucher's "Dickinson Marching Song."
  • The non-fraternity men of Dickinson organized a Commons Club for the purpose of enjoying the social benefits and establishing contacts commonly associated with fraternities. 
  • Rev. Dr. Frank D. Gamewell (class of 1881) served heroically in defense of the British Legation during the "Boxer Rebellion" in China.
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