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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