Dickinson Alumnus, February 1929

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees invited alumni to attend Dr. Mervin Grant Filler's (class of 1893) inauguration as the eighteenth president in April 1929.
  • The Alumni Gymnasium opened in early January with a basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania.
  • An infirmary, consisting of four rooms, opened in the rear of Conway Hall. 
  • Administrative offices, including the president's office, moved to the second floor of Old West.
  • P. W. "Red" Griffith was appointed head football coach.
  • James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) was featured in a Spanish language publication, The International Journal of Road Building.
  • William D. Angle (class of 1930) won the 1902 Award, honoring him for being the "best all around Dickinsonian" by judgement of his classmates.
  • Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, delivered a speech on former Smithsonian Secretary and former Dickinson Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird (class of 1840).
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1929
Year
1929
Volume
6
People
Griffith, Percy Wilfred
Valentine, William Alfred
Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Angle, William D.
Steese, James Gordon
Events
Wilkes-Barre Dinner
Organizations
Varsity Football
Board of Trustees
Basketball
Places
Alumni Gymnasium
Old West
Conway Hall
Other Topics
Infirmary
Campus Improvements

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, August 1926
Year
1926
Volume
4
People
Pedlow, George W.
Cadman, S. Parkes
Shenton, Herbert N.
Shafer, Glenn M.
Lew, Edwin
Mowbray, Edwin T.
Reed, George Edward
Events
Alumni Day
Organizations
Board of Trustees
Alumni Council
The Dickinsonian
Places
Alumni Gymnasium
Other Topics
Prohibition
Salary Increase
Dickinson History