Dickinson Alumnus, September 1938

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dickinson leased the William H. Parker home on North Hanover street as a women’s dorm. 
  • Five Dickinsonians were nominated for offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. 
  • The Faculty made a number of changes to the curriculum, including requiring that freshman and sophomores receive a broader background in English composition. 
  • The Alumnus published Professor Thomas Cooper's letter of resignation, which revealed difficulties at the college in the 1810s.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1938
Year
1938
Volume
16
People
Warner, Wellman J.
Hartman, W. Emory
Bell, Whitfield Jenks (Jr.)
Novak, John A.
Vuilleumier, Ernest Albert
Parlin, W. A.
Gerberich, Albert H.
Corson, Fred Pierce
Ayres, Frank (Jr.)
Kahler, Arthur D.
Cooper, Thomas
Organizations
Allison Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
Board of Trustees
Places
Denny Hall
Metzger Hall
Parker House
Biddle Field
Hotel James Wilson
Other Topics
Dickinson History
Curriculum Changes
New Buildings

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1938

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Alumni Fund raised over $7500 for the College.
  • English Professor Bradford Oliver McIntire, who taught at Dickinson from 1890 to 1929, died at age 81. 
  • Dr. Ralph Pemberton donated a portrait of Thomas Williams (class of 1825) and wrote about him in "A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Williams."
  • Eva B. Armstrong, a curator at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed Professor Thomas Cooper's life in "A Word Picture of Professor Thomas Cooper." The College received a portrait of Professor Cooper earlier in the year.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1938
Year
1938
Volume
15
People
Cooper, Thomas
Williams, Thomas
McIntire, Bradford Oliver
Ziegler, Charles Edward
Brown, Arthur H
Williams, J. Merrill
Corson, Fred Pierce
Organizations
Alumni Dickinson Clubs
Library Guild
Microcosm
Board of Trustees
Phi Beta Kappa
Alumni Council
Alumni Association
Women's Glee Club
Athletic Advisory Council
Psi Upsilon
Other Topics
Media Relations
Dickinson History

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1938

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • All of the District Attorneys of Dauphin Country were Dickinson alumni, including Carl B. Shelley (class of 1917), David S. Kohn (class of 1930), and E. LeRoy Keen (class of 1907).
  • Elisha Conover (class of 1884), Professor of classical languages at the University of Delaware, retired after half a century of uninterrupted absences.
  • Reviewers praised Lloyd W. Eshelman’s (class of 1923) new book on the Renaissance (Moulders of Destiny: Renaissance Lives and Times).
  • President Fred Corson (class of 1917) preached at the Harvard Memorial Church.
  • The Alumnus published additional diary entries from a student at Dickinson during the 1849-1850 academic year.
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1938
Year
1938
Volume
15
People
Corson, Fred Pierce
Jessup, Walter A.
Hitchler, Walter Harrison
McFarland, Horace J.
Shelley, Carl B.
Eshelman, Lloyd W.
Conover, Milton
Burns, Charles
Organizations
Library Guild
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Delta Theta
Belles Lettres Society
Phi Beta Kappa
American Philological Association
Classical Association of the Atlantic States
Other Topics
Financial Aid

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

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1935

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) opened the new school year with an address entitled "College an Aptitude Test for Life." 
  • Marjorie L. McIntire (class of 1910) became the first woman elected to the Alumni Council. 
  • General James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) described a recent trip in "Four Thousand Miles Across Africa."
  • The Alumnus published Paul Appenzellar's (class of 1895) address at his 40th reunion after "unusual demand for copies of the speech."
  • Roy N. Keiser (class of 1906) and J. J. Bunting (class of 1908) became district superintendents of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and Wilmington, respectively.
  • Charles L. Swift (class of 1904), a former dean of Conway Hall, became member of the College faculty. 
  • Reviewers praised Dr. Edwin Elliot Willoughby's (class of 1922) new book, A Printer of Shakespeare: The Books and Times of William Jaggard.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1935
Year
1935
Volume
13
People
Corson, Fred Pierce
McIntire, Marjorie L.
Swift, Charles Lowe
McConnell, Francis J.
Pettinos, Charles E.
Richards, Robert H.
Keiser, Roy N.
Bunting, John J.
Heller, Foster E.
Steese, James Gordon
Organizations
Board of Trustees
Alumni Council
Places
Conway Hall
Other Topics
Elections

Dickinson Alumnus, May 1935

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • Dr. Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) became the 20th president during his inauguration in May. 
  • William Edward Matthews Jr. (class of 1919) was elected to the State Senate of Delaware.
  • Over 300 prospective students and their families visited campus on "Sub-Freshman Day." 
  • The Alumnus published the Class of 1934 directory, which included each member's address and occupation.
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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1935
Year
1935
Volume
12
People
Corson, Fred Pierce
Matthews, William Edward Jr.
Nice, Harry W.
Wolcott, Josiah Oliver
Woodward, George
Clement, Martin W.
DeLaney, Matthew A.
Thompson, O. R. Howard
Auman, Lester Ward
Powers, Edgar Cordell
Wright, J. J.
Edel, William Wilcox
Events
Inauguration
Other Topics
Election

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1935

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • President-Elect Fred Corson's (class of 1917) inauguration was scheduled for May 4, 1935 .
  • Prospective students and their families were invited to tour Dickinson on "Sub-Freshman Day." 
  • Arthur D. Kahler, the head basketball coach at Brown University, became Dickinson's new football coach after Joseph H. McCormick's resignation. 
  • Fortune Magazine named Robert H. Richards (class of 1895) as "the most powerful man in Delaware and Wilmington's No. 1 attorney".
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1935
Year
1935
Volume
12
People
Corson, Fred Pierce
Kahler, Arthur D.
McCormick, Joseph H.
Richards, Robert H.
Organizations
Athletics Committee
Other Topics
Resignation

Dickinson Alumnus, September 1934

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • The Board of Trustees elected Dr. Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) as the next President of the College. Before starting the new position, President-elect Corson's family departed from California on a three month world cruise. James H. Morgan (class of 1878) served as Acting President since Dr. Karl T. Waugh's resignation. 
  • The College secured a Federal Emergency Relief Administration grant, which allowed 68 students to work part-time jobs at Dickinson and earn up to $150 during the academic year. 
  • The Board of Trustees established the Dickinson College Athletic Board consisting of eight members to handle athletic affairs at the College. 
  • The Alumnus published John Dickinson's 1934 Commencement address entitled "Political Thought of John Dickinson." Dickinson worked as  United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
  • John S. Bursk, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1895 to 1912 as well as Treasurer and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings for fifteen years, died in August 1934.
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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1934
Year
1934
Volume
12
People
Morgan, James Henry
Corson, Fred Pierce
Bursk, John S.
Waugh, Karl Tinsley
Events
Inauguration
Organizations
Board of Trustees
Athletic Board
Other Topics
Employment

Dickinson Alumnus, February 1930

Selected Highlights from this Issue
  • A group of alumni donated a portrait of James Wilson, one of Dickinson's founders.
  • Professor Leon C. Prince sustained serious injury after a severe car crash on the way back from the Dickinson Club of Washington.
  • Fred P. Corson (class of 1917) was appointed superintendent of the Brooklyn South District of the Methodist Episcopal church.
  • Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) asked alumni to send in Dickinsoniana for display in the new museum located in Old West.
  • Brigadier General Frank R. Keefer (class of 1885), who served as an assistant Surgeon during the Spanish-American War, described "an act of valor he performed" during the conflict.
  • Professor John F. Mohler (class of 1887), head of the Physics department for 34 years, died at the age of 65.
  • Former President George Edward Reed died at the age of 83. 
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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1930
Year
1930
Volume
7
People
Harper, Warren J.
Wilson, James
Mohler, Fred J.
Snyder, William S.
Parlin, W. A.
Spahr, Boyd Lee
Corson, Fred Pierce
Prince, Leon Cushing
Organizations
Alumni Council
Board of Trustees
Physics Department
Places
Old West
Other Topics
Election
Spanish-American War