Dickinson Alumnus, May 1937

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • New song book Songs of Dickinson, which was dedicated General Horatio C. King (class of 1858), was ready for publication at Commencement. 
  • Mary Love Collins (class of 1902), President of Chi Omega, attended a ceremony at the White House in which First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt awarded the National Achievement Award of Chi Omega to actress Katherine Cornell.
  • President Fred Corson (class of 1917) discussed whether there were "too many college graduates" and explained how Dickinson helped graduates find jobs.
  • The Letort Hotel, located at the southeast corner of High and East Streets, was torn down and replaced by a gas station. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1937
Year
1937
Volume
14
People
Embick, Stanley D.
Straw, Zatae Longsdorf
Chamberlain, Leon
Corson, Fred Pierce
Collins, Mary Love
Linville, Edwin H.
Organizations
Alumni Groups
Alumni Dickinson Clubs

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

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 1937
Year
1937
Volume
15
People
Prince, Leon Cushing
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Ketterer, George H.
Goodyear, Samuel M.
Corson, Fred Pierce
Shipley, Lester J.
Super, Charles William
Woodward, Franklin T.
Brown, Charles W.
Events
Dedication of Baird Biology Building
Organizations
Alumni Council
Methodist Episcopal Church
Phi Beta Kappa
Places
Baird Biology Building
Biddle Field
Other Topics
New Buildings