Dickinson Alumnus, October 1962

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumnus published the first of a two-part history of the Dickinson football team. This article focused on the period from 1885 to 1911.
  • Philip Gardiner Nordell discussed how the College used lotteries in the late 1700s to raise money in "The City Hall and Dickinson College Lottery."
  • Dickinson admitted the largest student body yet in fall 1962, with a total of 1,144 full time students.
  • Walter Rosenstein (class of 1962) received the first Amy Loveman Award, a national contest with a $1,000 prize.
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Dickinson Alumnus, October 1962
Year
1962
Volume
40

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1962

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Edward S. Delaplaine discussed Roger Brooke Taney's (class of 1795) "modest home" in Frederick, Maryland.
  • The Alumnus adapted a lecture by Professor William R. Bowden into an article titled "Our (Sob) Orthography."
  • The Mermaid Players' production of Othello, which was their 31st major performance, was staged in the Belles Lettres Hall located in Denny Hall.
  • The Dickinson College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Alpha of Pennsylvania, celebrated their 75th anniversary in April 1962.
  • Dr. Robert B. Woodward, a chemist, received the Priestley Award while Dr. Edward U. Condon, a nuclear physicist, received the Glover Medal.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1962
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1962
Volume
39

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1962

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumnus published Milton E. Flower's (class of 1931) detailed account of Dickinson's history during the Civil War period.
  • 139 students, more then 10% of the total student body, tried out for a role in the theater's production of Tartuffe.
  • The College acquired three new properties, which doubled the total acreage of the campus.
  • George G. Lindsay (class of 1949) commissioned a replica of the mermaid located on top of the Old West cupola.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1962
Year
1962
Volume
39