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1914
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins from the SS Potsdam on his way home from a trip to Europe . "We had very bad weather, the fog lasted for four days steadily with the fog horn signal every sixty seconds," as Blakey notes. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Leonard Blakey to Jane Perkins
1914
Jane Perkins writes to Professor Leonard Blakey regarding their last meeting as well as her recent trip. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Travel and Tourism
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Jane Perkins to Leonard Blakey
June 4, 1914
This issue of The Conwayan replaced the Logbook as the yearbook for the 1913-1914 academic year 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: The Conwayan (Jun. 1914)
June 10, 1914 - April 30, 1915
Esther Popel Shaw, Class of 1919, was the first African American woman to graduate from Dickinson College. This diary from Esther's senior year of high school documents her daily activities, particularly her interactions with family, friends, and neighbors. Esther routinely listed the names of the individuals she met each day and the people with whom she corresponded. She also included accounts of her school days, the books she was reading, the lectures and social events she attended, and her membership in a basketball team named the Philanders. It was during this time that Esther self-published her first collection of poetry, titled Thoughtless Thinks by a Thinkless Thoughter, which she sold to establish a college fund. The diary traces the evolution of this publication, which was printed on February 26, 1915.
Format: Diaries and Journals
Location: MC 2013.4, B1, F1 (Diary) ; MC 2013.4, B1, F3 (Transcript of Diary)
Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Esther Popel Shaw Diary (Original Diary) , Esther Popel Shaw Diary (Transcript)
November 1914
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1914-1915 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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1915
Medal of Honor recipient Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) writes a five-page composition entitled "Reminiscences" in pencil. He discusses his Dickinson College experience and includes notes of planned citations from his journal.
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Location: I-GrayM-1953-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Reminiscences," by Horatio Collins King
1915
Professor Leonard Blakey writes to Jane Perkins regarding Dickinson's commencement, the political stir behind selecting Professor James Henry Morgan as President Eugene Allen Noble's successor. "So many petty men are busy having their interests pushed by their little groups of friends," as Blakey notes. Blakey also mentions his walking tour in Perry County. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1911-1
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Sport and Recreation
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Leonard Blakey to Jane Perkins (Draft)
1914-1915
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, 1914-15
May 7, 1915
This brochure contains the roster of participants and the order of track and field events for the seventh Southern Illinois Interscholastic athletic contest held in Carbondale, Illinois.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F14
Subject: Sport and Recreation
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Southern Illinois Interscholastic Athletic Contest program
June 9, 1915
Helen Katherine Williamson receives her Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 9, 1915.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - Helen Williamson
December 4, 1915
In this newspaper clipping, Hanna Butler, prima donna of the Auditorium Hotel, offers advice for how singers can test their tone using their thumb.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F8
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Thumb Better Than Candle for Testing Out Voices" clipping from unknown newspaper
1915-1916
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, 1915-16
January 2, 1916
This program is for Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski's recital at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 1916.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F5
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: I. J. Paderewski recital program
January 30, 1916
An unknown student at Dickinson College writes to a Mitchell about the winter and getting ready for the fraternity dances that take place in February. The dances "will be quite a large and informal affair" and, as the student tells Mitchell, "I am getting very anxious for it." Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-AsbellY-2005-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter to Mitchell from Unknown Author
February 4, 1916
Writer and poet William Rose Benét writes to Lawton Mackall, asking him to contribute to a one-off literary magazine called The Chimaera.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from William Benét to Lawton Mackall
June 7, 1916
Jay Paul Jameson (Class of 1907) receives his Master of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 7, 1916.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Master of Arts Diploma - Jay Jameson
1917
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1916-1917 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 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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1916-1917
The Logbook is the yearbook of Conway Hall, Dickinson College's Preparatory School.
This yearbook includes a fold-out photograph between pages 76 and 77 of students and faculty outside of Conway Hall, which you can view as a PDF file.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Logbook, 1916-17
June 6, 1917
Edgar Rohrer Heckman (Class of 1897) receives this Honorary Doctor of Divinity Diploma from Dickinson College on June 6, 1917.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Honorary Doctor of Divinity Diploma - Edgar Heckman
August 15, 1917
William Rose Benét writes two letters to Lawton Mackall: the first promises poems and includes a drawing; the second explains Benét's plans to travel for ten days.
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
December 1918
This bulletin for the Mt. Vernon First Methodist Episcopal Church advertises prayer meetings and worship services at the church, including the congregation's Christmas Sunday service on December 22, 1918.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B6, F13
Subject: Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Mt. Vernon, Illinois First Methodist Episcopal Church bulletin
1919
A description of this document is not currently available.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: DC 1870 B584m
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Education
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: "Moncure D. Conway and Conway Hall," by Edward W. Biddle
March 23, 1919
This is a concert program for a performance Marguerite Namara and Allen Tanner gave to raise money for the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for the Soldiers and Sailors of the Allies.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F22
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Concert for the benefit of the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund program
March 23, 1919
This is the cover of a program for a concert to support the Permanent Blind Relief War Fund for the Soldiers and Sailors of the Allies.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F50
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Permanent Blind Relief War Fund program
March 29, 1919
Esther H. King writes to Whitelaw Saunders regarding her late husband, Horatio Collins King.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-SpahrB-1958-36
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1900-1919
View Item: Letter from Esther King to Whitelaw Saunders