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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1941

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The Bosler Hall renovation project neared completion as construction workers removed the scaffolding.
Trustee Boyd Lee Spahr (class of 1900) explained why the Board of Trustees decided to use March 3, 1773 as the date of Dickinson's founding instead of 1783.
Princeton Professor Alpheus T. Mason (class of 1920) published a book (Bureaucracy Convicts Itself) about the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy during the Taft administration and how a democratic government can control civilians’ lives.
Boyd Lee Spahr donated several letters by John Dickinson and James Buchanan (class of 1809) as well as a copy of the Columbian Magazine that had an advertisement for Dickinson College.
Richard Henry Lindsey (class of 1939) became the youngest Postmaster in the United States.
W. Reese Hitchens (class of 1928) replaced Albert W. James (class of 1927) as Deputy Attorney General of Delaware.

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Dickinson Alumnus, February 1941

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1939

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The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the reconstruction of Bosler Hall in a style similar to that of Old West.
Maria Dickinson Logan, great-granddaughter of John Dickinson, bequeathed John Dickinson relics to the college.
Walter A. Hearn (class of 1914), John M. Pearson (class of 1918), and F. LaMont Henninger (class of 1924) were appointed District Superintendents in their respective conferences by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Who’s Who in America magazine published a two-page biography of Dr. Charles William Super (class of 1866), the oldest living Dickinson Alumnus.
The Alumnus printed Lieutenant Colonel Edgar E. Hume's remarks at Founders' Day in which he discussed the similarities between Dickinson and the Society of Cincinnati.
Graduates of Conway Hall, the Dickinson preparatory school, formed an alumni group.

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1939

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1939

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Parlin, W. A.

Dickinson-Logan, Maria

Wilkinson, Howard Sargent

Pennell, Joseph R.

Reese, Fred S.

Hitchler, Walter Harrison

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Alumni Dickinson Clubs

Methodist Episcopal Church

Omicron Delta Kappa

Conway Hall Alumni Association

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1934

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John Dickinson, a descendant of the elder brother of the college's founder and US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was selected to deliver Commencement address.
Prospective students visited Dickinson on a "visiting day" in May 1934 for the first time.
Dr. Russel I. Thompson investigated students' perspectives on a formal religion program.
General James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) described a recent trip in "Around the World in Five Weeks."
Three recent graduates received scholarships for graduate schools in France and Germany.
Professor Leon C. Prince (class of 1898), Pennsylvania State Senator, received a "surprising vote" for the Republican nomination for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania.

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1934

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1934

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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1932

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Dickinson purchased the Mooreland Tract for $50,000, which expanded the campus.
The Alumni Council recommended creating a fund to solicit annual donations.
Members of the soccer team received varsity letters for the first time.
Wilbur L. Adams (class of 1905) was elected to the House of Representatives.
William D. Thomas (class of 1912), president of Sandvik Steel, Inc., became a Knight of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of his work with the American Association of Fine Steel Importers.
Edmund S. Snyder (class of 1929) wrote "A Glimpse of John Dickinson" for the Alumnus.
Former Professor Morris W. Prince died at the age of 89.

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Dickinson Alumnus, December 1932

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1932

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Brown, George Lancaster

Prince, Morris Watson

McAnney, Lucretia Jones

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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1932

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The Board of Trustees discussed expanding campus with the purchase of the Mooreland Track.
Harry L. Price (class of 1896), president of the Alumni Association, suggested moving John Dickinson's grave from Wilmington, Delaware, to Carlisle.
President Karl Waugh's inauguration took place during Commencement in June 1932.
The Tome Scientific Building's basement became a special laboratory for physical chemistry.
Rev. John J. Snavely (class of 1904) became a district superintendent for the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York.
Kappa Sigma moved out of East College and into a new fraternity house, which was located at the northeast corner of College and Louther Streets.

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Dickinson Alumnus, September 1932

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1932

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1932

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The Alumnus reprinted an article, "John Dickinson, Who Refused to Sign," from the Baltimore Sunday Sun.
Edwin Forrest Hann (class of 1901) and Edgar Washabaugh (class of 1910) were appointed District Superintendents of their respective Methodist conferences in New Jersey and Newark.
Dr. J. Manning Roberts donated a letter written by Beverly Robert Waugh (class of 1846) as a student in 1844.
Howard S. Wilkinson (class of 1900) was appointed canon of the Cathedral of Long Island, New York.
Education Professor C. J. Carver organized a Teachers Placement Bureau, which helped both students and alumni find jobs.
President Karl Waugh's Inauguration was set to take place in June.

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Dickinson Alumnus, May 1932

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1932

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Wilkinson, Howard Sargent

Dickinson, John

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Inauguration

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Teachers Placement Bureau

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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923

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Various classes returned to the college for reunions during the recent commencement weekend, and the Class of 1903 presented a plan for various campus improvements, such as planting a variety of trees and bushes, as a gift to the college.
James Gordon Steese (class of 1902) became the first president of the Alaska Road Commission.
Noah Pinkney, a local food vendor who was a Dickinson fixture for generations of students, passed away at the age of 77.
Dean Mervin G. Filler (class of 1893) discussed changes in the curriculum and student class schedules over the past decade.
A "lost" portrait of John Dickinson by Charles Willson Peale was located in the possession of a descendant, and a copy was made by artist Horace T. Carpenter to hang in Memorial Hall in Old West.
Theodore M. Johnson described the 1863 Confederate bombardment of Carlisle and Dickinson College during the Civil War. Johnson lived with his father, Dickinson's President Herman M. Johnson, in East College in the 1860s.

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Dickinson Alumnus, August 1923

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1923

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Hull, George Ross

Murdock, William C.

Steese, James Gordon

Peale, Charles William

Carpenter, Horace T.

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