Dickinson Alumnus, February 1937

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President Fred Pierce Corson (class of 1917) spoke at Professor Leon Cushing Prince's (class of 1898) funeral. 
  • The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church praised Dr. Julia Morgan (class of 1911) and Clara Bell Smith (class of 1911) for their missionary work in China. 
  • An anonymous faculty member wrote a short biography for former President James Henry Morgan's (class of 1878) 80th birthday, which the Alumnus reprinted.
  • Dr. Herbert Newhard Shenton (class of 1906), professor of sociology and head of that department at Syracuse University, died of a heart attack. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1937
Year
1937
Volume
14
People
Corson, Fred Pierce
Prince, Leon Cushing
Dorey, J. Milnor
Swift, Charles Lowe
McAndrews, Richard H.
Shenton, Herbert N.
Morgan, Julia
Towers, Thomas J.
Morgan, James Henry
Organizations
Alumni Groups
Alumni Dickinson Clubs
Methodist Episcopal Church

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, December 1937
Year
1937
Volume
15
People
Vuilleumier, Ernest Albert
Corson, Fred Pierce
Kahler, Arthur D.
Norcross, Wilbur Harrington
White, Mary R.
Lazenby, Chandler
Perry, Clayton C.
Richards, Karl E.
Towers, Thomas J.
Moses, Howard E.
Organizations
Alumni Council
Alumni Dickinson Clubs
Phi Epsilon Pi
Board of Trustees
Committee of the Pennsylvania College Presidents' Association
Alumni Association
Football
Places
Biddle Field
Other Topics
Athletics