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May 25, 1908
Horatio Collins King writes from Brooklyn to Mrs. Albert M. Smith in Middletown, Connecticut, and agrees to send autographs from General Daniel Sickles and General Grenville M. Dodge, the latter a Corps Commander in the Western Army.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Purchase-1958-6
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Horatio Collins King to Mrs. Albert Smith
June 10, 1908
George Durbin Chenoweth, a member of the Class of 1868, receives his honorary Doctor of Science Diploma from Dickinson College on June 10, 1908.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Honorary Doctor of Science Diploma - George Chenoweth
1909
Ella P. Davis writes this essay, entitled "Woman and the Home," as a student at Dickinson. Davis is a member of the Class of 1909.
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Location: Essays-General-1909-D261w
Subject: Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Woman and the Home," by Ella P. Davis
1909
This is a reproduced image of opera singer Mary Garden as Salome.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F12
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Mary Garden as Salome" clipping from unknown publication
1908-1909
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1908-09
January 22, 1909
John W. Yost writes Frank T. Bell and describes his missionary work at a boys school in China as well as asks for financial help to establish scholarships . In addition, Yost notes how the reaction to news that the Emperor and Empress Dowager had died. "The people were greatly grieved indeed, much as we would be upon the death of our President, but here they make their grief more apparent," as Yost explains. Yost (Class of 1903) and Bell (Class of 1902) are both Beta Pi alumni. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-BellR-1982-1
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from John Yost to Frank Bell
June 8, 1909
Harry Bright Frederick receives his Bachelor of Law Diploma from the Dickinson School of Law on June 8, 1909.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education, Legal Affairs
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Bachelor of Law Diploma - Harry Frederick
June 9, 1909
Ellsworth H. Mish prepared this oration, entitled “Congressional Usurpation," for the commencement ceremonies held June 9, 1909. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Location: Orations-1909-M678c
Subject: Politics and Government
Time Period: 1900-1919
October 1909
The Independent Theosophical League creates this pamphlet to outline policies and positions as well as discuss the reasons to form of an Independent Section of the Theosophical League. Those individuals involved with creating this pamphlet include Upendra Nath Basu, Bertram Keightley, B. K. Lahiri, Ishari Prasad, Rajendra Lal Mukerji, and Lilian Edger. The Women's Printing Society, which is on Brick Street in Piccadilly, is the publisher.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: I-Friends-1973-9
Subject: Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Independent Theosophical League pamphlet
1909-1910
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1909-10
February 1910
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1909-1910 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators. Information about programs at the Law School and Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School, was also included in this edition.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
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June 7, 1910
Edward Wright Byrn delivers this reunion address in 1910 for the Class of 1870. Byrn discusses the importance of reunions at which former students "meet every five years after graduation and renew the old associations of college days." Byrn also describes the events that took place during the reunion.
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Location: I-Original-1910-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
June 8, 1910
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 8, 1910 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: 1910 Commencement Program
June 8, 1910
Blanche Lightner Dum receives this Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 8, 1910.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: OC 2007.5, F1
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Blanche Dum
June 8, 1910
Charles Bruce Derick, a member of the Class of 1907, receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 8, 1910.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - Charles Derick
1910-1911
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1910-11
September 16, 1911
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers ('93) writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, about Birrell’s claim in his book, Life of William Hazlitt, that “the presidency of [Dickinson] College” was offered to Hazlitt in 1783. Sellers, who is in the process of “collecting data concerning the early history of the college,” asks Birrell to send additional information “concerning the incident.”
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Montgomery Sellers to Augustine Birrell
November 26, 1911
Dickinson Professor Leonard Blakey receives this letter from a member of the Economics and Sociology Department at Bowdoin College regarding job possibilities at that college as well as John A. Hobson's economic theories.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter to Leonard Blakey from Unknown Author
1911-1912
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1911-12
June 4, 1912
Lyman G. Hertzler receives this diploma from Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School, on June 4, 1912.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Dickinson Preparatory School Diploma - Lyman Hertzler
1912-1913
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1912-13
May 1, 1913
Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers writes to Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and describes an observance of "Nisbet Day" that morning at Dickinson College, explains how Charles Nisbet became the first President of Dickinson, and provides additional information about Charles Nisbet's character. In addition, Sellers informs Birrell that he cannot find any evidence that William Hazlitt was ever officially offered the presidency of Dickinson College.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-SellersC-1964-5
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Montgomery Sellers to Augustine Birrell
June 11, 1913
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 11, 1913 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: 1913 Commencement Program
October 31, 1913
Andrew Carnegie writes to Funk & Wagnalls Company, a publishing company in New York City, thanking them for their gift of their new standard dictionary. "I placed the new Standard Dictionary at my side-a sure refuge in the day of trouble with our exceedingly rich but most irregular language, which however is being slowly yet surely improved," as Carnegie notes.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-AsbellY-1976-4
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Andrew Carnegie to Funk & Wagnalls Company
December 19, 1913
Medal of Honor Recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) drafts a letter to President William H. Taft, disagreeing with Taft on the future of the Progressive Party. Includes a photocopy of an earlier letter from Taft to King, in which Taft declines the presidency of City College.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-HanwayJ-1975-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Draft of Letter from Horatio Collins King to William Taft